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AMERICAN  STENOGRAPHY: 


A  System  of  Shorthand  Writing  adapted  to 
Self  "Instruction. 


NICHOLAS  WARD. 


Naturam  sequimur  ducem, 
Artis  non  inopes,  nee  sine  legibus. 


PHILADELPHIA  : 
H.    L.    KlLNER   &   CO. 

PUBLISHERS. 


COPYRIGHT,  1899,  BY  H.  I,.  KII,NER  &  Co. 


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PREFACE. 


THE  only  apology  for  this  little  book  is  the  conviction 
that  shorthand  is  an  art  that  has  not  yet  reached  its  full 
measure  of  development  ;  and  that,  after  an  experience  of 
twenty  years  with  the  more  prominent  systems  now  in  vogue, 
it  was  judged  better  to  incorporate  the  changes  suggested  into 
a  new  system  of  which  they  would  be  integral  parts,  than  to 
try  the  thankless  task  of  patching  them  on  to  the  old.  The 
new  wine  has  a  right  to  a  new  bottle. 

Were  I  to  claim  that  "the  system  taught  in  these  pages" 


>-  is  absolutely  perfect  ;  that  it  is,  beyond  anything  hitherto  seen, 
:  "the  simplest,  the  quickest,  and  the  best,"  I  would  not  be 
-3  doing  any  more  than  has  been  done  by  my  predecessors,  of 
^  whom  it  must  be  said  that  they  have  not  proven  themselves 
"  patterns  of  literary  modesty.  Whether  the  public  will  enter- 
5  tain  the  same  convictions  as  myself  concerning  the  NEW 

AMERICAN  STENOGRAPHY,  and  whether  the  system  will  come 

mi  unscathed  through  the  fires  of  rival  criticism,  remains  to  be 

^  seen  ;  but  unless  I  believed  that  in  some  things  it  was  superior 

to  anything  yet  published,  and  for  that  reason  a  little  worthier 

to  become  the  Shorthand  of  the  Futtire,  this  labor  would  never 

have  been  undertaken. 


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THE  ALPHABET. 


The  letters  of  the  stenographic  alphabet  are  arranged  in 
pairs,  so  that  any  letter  resembling  another  in  sound  is  repre- 
sented by  a  similar  sign.  A  few  of  the  letters  are  paired 
merely  for  convenience'  sake.  The  little  dots  before  some  of 
the  characters  show  where  the  letters  commence. 


CONSONANTS. 

VOWELS. 

B     and  P 

1 

A  long 

•        as  in 

fate 

G    and  K 

^  ^ 

e  short 

• 

fed 

Z    and  S 

^  ^ 

E  long 

r\ 

feed 

M   and  N 

—  —      _ 

i   short 

ft 

fit 

D   and  T 
V    and  F 

/   7 

I     long 
O  long 

O      " 

fight 
foe 

L,   and  R 

../s 

o  short 

o 

for 

J     and  Ch 
W  and  Wh 

T  r 

X            \ 

a  short 
OO 

o 

fat 
food 

H   and  Sh 

^-  ^ 

U   long 

« 

few 

Y   and  Th 

"^   ~. 

u  short 

X 

fur 

Q 

( 

Oi 

0 

foil 

Ow 

o       » 

fowl 

NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


FIRST   LESSON. 


DRILL    ON    THE    ALPHABET. 


i.  Silent  letters  are  never  written.  In  the  preliminary 
exercises  an  asterisk  will  show  what  letters  must  be  left  out. 

For  this  lesson  we  will  take  the  first  four  pairs  of  letters, 
and  the  circle-  vowels.  At  first,  the  writing  should  be  done 
quite  slowly  to  cultivate  accuracy;  but  as  soon  as  some  con- 
fidence is  felt,  the  speed  should  be  increased.  Every  one  of 
the  drills  and  exercises  should  be  written  very  many  times. 
Repetition  will  gradually  engender  speed. 

BPGKZSMN  a      8      6 

|     *^s^>s~-\^  --  o     O    O 

B  and  P  are  always  traced  downwards  ;  all  the  rest,  for- 
wards. G  is  always  hard,  and  is  pronounced  gay  ;  it  never 
has  the  soft  sound  of  G  in  gem  :  for  this  J  is  used.  Make  the 
circlet  for  short  A  as  small  as  possible  (a  tiny  filled-in  loop 
will  do),  and  observe  carefully  the  relative  sizes  of  the  other 
circle-vowels. 

Smallest  circle-vowel  representing  short  A. 


"I 


Cap 

Pack 

Ba* 

Gab 


x  _  p 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


Sam 
Can 


Back          L. 

* 

Knack 


Nap 

Cab 


~f 


Medium-sized  circle-vowel  for  short  O,  and  Au.  These 
sounds  are  similar  enough  to  warrant  their  being  written  with 
the  same  sign. 


Paw 

b 

Psalm 

* 

Palm 

* 

d- 

Calm 

* 

Balk 

* 

^ 

Ma 

Gnaw 
Awes 
Saw 


Largest  circle-vowel  for  long  O. 


Beau 

Pope 

* 

Mow 

* 
Oak 

* 

Oh! 

so 


-O 

Q/ 
O 


Pok| 
Moan 

Mope 

Nose 
• 

Soap 

Pose 


V 


—  ^- 


Cone 
Oboe 


P 
e  T 

r\ 
Como         vQ    O 


Cocoa 

N° 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


SECOND  LESSON. 


ALPHABET  DRILL,  CONTINUED. 


Let  us  proceed  to  exercise  upon  the  next  four  pairs  of 
consonants,  with  the  same  circle  vowels. 

Ch  a       6       5 


D 


V 


R 


J   J     // 


( 


D  and  T  are  traced  downwards ;  the  same  holds  for  V  and 
F,  and  for  J  and  Ch.  The  letters  L  and  R  are  traced  up- 
wards. 


Bad 
Pad 
Dam 

i 

Vat            </ 
Fat             <7 
Lad            /j 

Tap 

Y 

«. 

Lamb         ^S 

Fog 

oO 

Fop            Of 

Naught 

-f 

Maud              "T 

Pot 

A 

Loss           s 

Top 

V 

Toss           C7~\ 

More 

-6 

Solo           stf 

Rope 

•40 

Sewed       /D 

Road 

j 

Coal            \£LS 

Loaf 

^r 

Dough      (y 

NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


THIRD  LESSON. 


ALPHABET  DRILL,  CONTINUED. 


We  now  take  the  remaining  consonants,  with  the  same 
vowels. 

W        Wh        H        Sh        Y        Th        Q 


\ 


C 


When  W  and  Y  are  vowels,  they  are  written  according  to 
the  vowel-sound  that  they  embody.  Thus  in  the  word  new, 
ew  is  written  as  long  U;  in  the  word  try,  y  represents  long 
I.  In  such  cases  the  consonant  forms  given  above  are  never 
used. 


Wag 

^  x 

Hat 

V 

Whack 

V, 

Shallow 

(^ 

Hag 

L. 

Shad 

y 

Hack 

U, 

Sham 

\.r\ 

Wall 

y- 

Hot 

V 

Hall 

V^x^^"^ 

Pshaw  ! 

k> 

Hog 

\Q^^s 

Shawl 

<OX 

Woe 

VO 

Home 

(a. 

Woke 

^j 

Choke 

&> 

Wore 

X 

Though 

T\ 

Wrath 

x~> 

Yacht 

£1 
••    *v 

Yawn 

^ 

Show 

(0 

Both 

A 

Quoth 

I 

10  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


FOURTH  LESSON. 


ALPHABET   DRILL,    CONTINUED. 


After  the  circle-vowels,  come  those  represented  by  a  half- 
circle,  viz.,  long  E,  and  long  and  short  I.  To  avoid  unneces- 
sary angles  these  characters  are  "tucked  into"  an  open  loop 
in  joining  with  most  of  the  consonants. 

j 


Bee  J  Feed 

'Beef  H  Reap 

Cede  xp  Me 

Leaf  Xj7  sea 

Deep  A  Cheat  (\ 


In  e—  Sick 

Kin  *~^~  Sin  s-* 

Kick          *~^_s  Rib 


Kill  v^v^  Rid 

Kiss  <— ->-^  Writ 


I  u  Choir  (f  Chide       J 

Ice  <x-"j  Sigh  x-\>  Thine       "V- 

Eyes  ex — ^  Tie  ^  Hire 

Fight  ^  Bite  L  Pipe 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  II 


FIFTH  LESSON. 


ALPHABET  DRILL,  CONTINUED. 


We  will  now  practice  on  long  and  short  U.  When  long, 
this  letter  is  traced  either  up  or  down,  according  to  con- 
venience; but  when  short,  it  is  always  written  downwards, 
and  is  struck  from  the  left.  It  may  be  written  as  a  short 
perpendicular  stroke  to  insure  better  joinings,  and  is  even 
sometimes  disjoined  altogether. 

You  /  Mute          v  Pew  l» 

Cute         *-t  Hugh         ^  Accuse     *-!—•% 

Cuba         *~l  News  ^^^  Refuse     "^—C 

L  I 

Tube          1  Rebuke  Adieu         J 


Bug          l_V»  *>un  ^-  Much 

Puff          L  Gum  >^   ^  Love 

'I 

Bun  K  Russia  x^o  Run 


The  last  of  the  dash-vowels  is  OO  long  or  short.  It  is 
written  as  a  short  horizontal  stroke,  and  is  often  disjoined  or 
omitted  by  reason  of  the  difficulty  of  making  good  joinings. 

Food  J  Shoot       S  Stoop        O 

Foot  4  Loop         x —  Goose       ^    ^"S 

I  S^* 

Book  L.  Look        X^  Sue  ^-\. 


12  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


SIXTH  LESSON. 


ALPHABET   DRILL,   CONTINUED. 


We  now  come  to  the  dot  vowels.  They  consist  of  a 
heavy  and  a  light  dot,  and  represent  long  A  and  short  E. 
Just  because  they  occur  so  much  more  frequently  in  English 
than  any  other  vowels,  they  can  generally  be  omitted  alto- 
gether, or  else  (long  A  particularly)  be  dotted  on  to  the 
outline,  as  we  dot  our  I's,  when  the  word  is  written. 

Day  <S*  Bay                r  Evade  / 

Dame  -/  *^  Face             *-~\  Kate  ^ 

Air  ^  Fade  J  Neigh  T- 

Area  >**  Vary  P>  Stay  O 


Bed  Lead  )  Ferry 

Stem          s~\  Head  Neck 


s~\ 
Said          ^-  Met          -  -,  Pet  ] 

# 


NEW  AMERICAN  STENOGRAPHY. 


SEVENTH  LESSON. 


ALPHABET   DRILL,    CONTINUED. — DIPHTHONGS. 


The  last  of  the  vowels  are  the  diphthongs  Oi  and  Ow, 
and  they  are  written  as  combinations  of  a  circle  and  half  a 
circle.  Oi  is  traced  from  above,  and  Oiv  from  below.  Both 
of  these  signs  vary  a  little  for  the  purposes  of  joining. 


Boy 
Oily 
Poison 


Voice 

Foil 

Toil 


u 


Soil 


Royal 


Pouch       Q) 
Vouch       ttJ 
Couch  > 


Fowl 

Towel 

Vowel 


Shower 


14  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

EIGHTH  LESSON. 


DOUBLE   CONSONANTS. 


Just  as  we  have  blended  vowels  which  form  diphthongs, 
so  we  have  double  consonants  (sometimes  called  consonantal 
diphthongs);  and  as  the  letters  so  blended  have  but  a  single 
sound,  stenography  tries  to  give  them  a  single  distinctive  sign. 

All  the  consonants,  except  L  and  R,  M  and  N,  may  be 
partially  shaded  to  imply  an  added  R,  and  wholly  shaded  to 
imply  an  added  L,. 

II  ^  )        )        I        I 

I  I          +*~S      **-S    s*^,      S~\       S         -J  I  I 

Br          Bl          Gr          Gl          Zr          Zl          Dr          Dl         Vr          VI 

r  /  v  v*  A'  <  ^  ^  c   ( 

Jr         Jl          Hr         HI         Wr         Wl         Yr         Yl         Qr         Ql 

|  |  ^  w,         ^         r\          )  >  1 

Pr  PI  Kr  Kl  Sr  SI  Tr  Tl  Fr 

/     (     r     ^      c    N      \     ^     ^ 

Fl         Chr         Chi         Shr         Shi        Whr        Whl        Thr        Thl 
DOUBLE   CONSONANTS   USED   INITIALLY. 


Bright 

Free 

J 

Prize 

Blight 

(, 

Flee 

J 

Applies 

Fright 

(j 

Crime 

vjr— 

Shrive 

Flight 

!, 

Clime 

^~ 

Thrive 

Dream 

L. 

Greek 

^x^ 

Breathe 

Tree 

j 

Gleain 

\*.S*- 

—         Freight 

* 


Greed 


NEW   AMERICAN  STENOGRAPHY. 

Claw  &  Crash 

Creep  **0  Crumb 

Grape       **-^|  Cream  *-*l____  True 

Grace       * — -^  Cross  ^-tT^  Shriek 


Grieve      *^7 


USED    FINALLY. 

These  double  consonants  may  be  considered  as  syllables, 
and  be  pronounced  with  E  short,  or  any  obscure  vowel 
between  the  letters. 


Clover 

T 

Surgical 

C 

Washer 

^ 

Bushel 

Iv 

Magical 

r 

Wisher 

I 

Logical 

-•£ 

Metal 

—) 

Century 

'-Xi 

I 

Pressure 

i 

Southerly 

~V 

Venture 

t 

Pleasure 

I 

Stranger 

? 

Fiscal 

A 

Leisure 

X* 

Danger 

k 

Physical 

^ 

Dictator 

* 

Liberator 

Pleader 

^ 

Operator 

% 

Angel 

t 

Travel 

t 

i6 


NEW  AMERICAN  STENOGRAPHY. 


NINTH  LESSON. 


DOUBLE  LETTERS,  CONTINUED. 


M  and  L  are  wholly  shaded  to  imply  Z>,  and  partially 
shaded  to  imply  T.  The  same  holds  for  N  and  R.  So 
shaded,  these  letters  may  be  considered  as  syllables,  and  are 
pronounced  :  Med,  Met ;  Led,  Let  ;  Ned,  Net ;  Red,  Ret, 
respectively. 

•When  a  vowel  intervenes  between  any  of  these  conso- 
nants, it  may  be  written  last.  This  can  occasion  no  confu- 
sion, as  there  is  no  such  initial  combination  in  English  as 
LD,  MD,  &c. 

The  full  alphabetic  form  is  preferable  with  the  circle- 
vowels,  and  when  D  or  T  belongs  to  a  separate  syllable,  as 
in  mutter,  middle. 

MD   Maid        -7- 

Mid  — , 

Meed  j 


Trimmed       j_ 
Dimmed       J 
Damned       ^1 

Mood 
Mud 
Bermuda 

Amid 


Begrimed 


Mode      — O 
Maud      £> 


FULL   FORM   PREFERABLE. 

Mad  , — ^p  Middle 

Muddle 


-7 


MTMet 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 
Mute        — -r  Meat 


Mate          —  T-» 

Might 

•i">                 Preempt 

JL-_ 

Exempt  O~" 

Mitten 

^                Mutton 

—  l- 

FULL   FORM 

PREFERABLE. 

Mat            -* 

Mote 

—  -P  '           Metal 

-^ 

Matter      ^ 

Motto 

—  -P               Mottled 

-^f 

Mutter     -j 

Moiety 

—  ? 

LD  Led           **** 

Lewd 

*^"             Filed 

</ 

Leaden     <^^ 

Old 

Q^*             Child 

c/ 

Lied          ^ 

Ailed 

.^X*              Wild 

\^ 

Collide      ^&** 

Yield 

1^^**           Beguiled 

L^ 

Loud         *^{ 

Field 

4^^              Piled 

i/ 

^ 

Alloyed     <^^ 

Riled 

x^                Soiled 

^^ 

i8 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


LT  Let              ^ 

Lute 

Polite    ^ 

•^ 

Light         X-* 

Late 

*^f                Salt        sft 

S> 

Lit             S* 

'                Elite 

******                Insult    g-^ 

^ 

The  rule  for  writing  the  syllable  LET,  when 
by  the  letter  M,  will  be  given  in  Lesson  13. 

preceded 

FULLER   FORMS 

PREFERABLE. 

Load          -^H 

? 

Latter 
n 

S^*               Literal 

X^ 

Ladder      —  -" 

J             Later 

*^*'             Loiter 

^ 

Letter       ^ 

"^             Litter 

X^*                Lotus 

s& 

Exploit     V"""l 

|p               Desolate 

^^                Absolute 

AUot         «—  - 
ND  Neighed     «. 

o 

"T              Dissolute 

>-V.               Obsolete 

\ 

Nude 

—  9»                 Denied 

Need          —5 

NT  Sent           ^, 
Indent       g^p1 

And 

—                  Flattened 

i. 

L 

—5 

«             Spent 
Splint 

T_               Bent 
'*1_^                Neat  • 

Intent         2, 

Mint 

a-.             Night 

Node 


FULL   FORMS  PREFERABLE. 
_O  Note  Q  Nod  O 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


Red                 X* 

Soured          ^^a^ 

Bard 

Shepherd          IX 

Showered      v^a^ 

Guard 

Referred           r 

Ride               x' 

Board 

Hired              ^ 

Rid                X*» 

Aired 

Lowered        x"^ 

Ward              ^ 

Preferred 

Root              ^XJ 

Write             ^-? 

Rate 

Rout             X® 

Writ              X*» 

Part 

Hurt              \s 

Flirt              ^ 

Dart 

Dirt               -*• 

Curt            *~*S' 

Smart 

Rowdy 

Rode 

Wrote 


J- 


FULL   FORMS  PREFERABLE. 
Riddle  X?  Rot 

Rudder          S\  Adroit 


20 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


TENTH  LESSON. 


LENGTHENED   LETTERS. 


M,  S,  D,  V,  and  L,  may  be  made  double-length  simply 
to  double  the  letter  ;  while  M  may  be  a  little  extended  to 
incorporate  a  following  N,  and  L,  may  be  similarly  lengthened 
to  add  R.  Every  other  letter,  when  doubled,  must  be  ticked. 


Member 

Deaden        / 

Sister 

Remember       -S*  —  ' 

I        Masses            ^ 

•  —  -^         Sources 

Memory           
J 

-jS*          Misses                 - 

.  ^       Waltzes 

Dead                   / 

Moses       .  —  ^f 

X.        Sorceres 

Men                 

Parallel      ^// 

Pedler 

German           *  

1 

—               Roarer        2^^ 

S 
Pebble 

Demented        *  •  >•• 

./ 

j                 Adorer       s~/^ 

Pepper 

Amended        *  

•1               Butler          l^x^ 

Discoverer 

H 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


21 


ELEVENTH  LESSON. 


INITIAL   AND   FINAL   S,   WITH   OTHER   CONSONANTS. 


When  S  blends  with  another  consonant,  either  at  the 
beginning  or  end  of  words,  without  an  intervening  vowel,  it 
is  written  as  a  loop,  except  before  L,  and  R,  in  which  case  the 
full  alphabetic  form  is  used. 


Scorer 

CO^ 

Smart           C  — 

~°              Joseph 

Snorer 

ct5^ 

Chasm         ^-G" 

Usurps 

Squire 

c 

Smoke          C 

Comes 

Rasp 

XI 

Snow            C^ 

Judges 

Rasps 

x«X 

Since            X-T- 

•3               Charges 

Pence 

i, 

Snap             c^f 

Tassel 

Curse 

^v^> 

Step               0 

Muscle 

4 


When  final  S  is  written  as  a  loop,  it  may  be  shaded  for  ST. 
Enhanced        ^-*-*>          Glanced       ^*^>  Rinsed 


Chanced 
Against 


Danced 
Fenced 


Incensed 
Distanced 


22 


AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


TWELFTH  LESSON. 


LENGTHENED   LETTERS,   CONTINUED. — NASAL   N. 


The  so-called  nasal  sound  of  N,  by  which  it  is  pronounced 
ING,  is  written  by  slightly  lengthening  G  ;  and  if  the  sign 
be  still  further  lengthened  so  as  to  equal  the  space  of  two  G's, 
the  combination  INGK  is  figured.  Should  there  be  two  ING 
sounds  in  a  word,  a  simple  G  will  answer  for  the  second. 


NO  Bag       (2 /  Sinning 

Bang    \j ^  Singing 


Bank 


Sin 


Sing 


Sink 


Sinking 


Singe 


7 


Hang 


ING,  when  partially  shaded,  stands  for  NGR,  or  NGGR. 
ING,  when  wholly  shaded,  stands  for  NGL,  or  NGGL. 
NGL,R  is  simply  an  addition  of  R  to  INGL,E. 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  23 

NQR     Anger  ^___^        Linger         /^  Stronger 

Finger        \^  _^,        Longer        /^  Hunger 

In  practical  work,  the  G  in  all  the  above  combinations 
may  be  replaced  by  K  ;  shading  the  double-length  G  may  be 
preferred  by  some. 


NKR     Anchor 


NEW  AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


THIRTEENTH  LESSON. 


COMBINED   CONSONANTS. 


If  the  alphabetic  form  of  L,  or  R  were  rigorously  adhered 
to  when  joining  these  letters  to  M  or  N  (and  vice  versa),  very 
awkward  angles  would  result.  These  are  altogether  avoided 
by  using  the  following  forms,  in  which  every  combination  of 
these  letters  becomes  an  easily  written  curve  : — 


RN           LN           RM 

LM; 

r      f^     t  — 

r~ 

Ren        L,en         Rem 

L<em  ; 

Born         /f~ 

Earn 

Worn        X*~ 

Earner 

Forlorn     l^^ 

Earnest' 

Warm       $" 

Discern 

Warms      Q^ 

Discerner 

Woolen    \/ 

Warning 

Helm        V  

Storm 

Germ        L  — 

Sullen 

Owner     O/ 

Ellen 

Sooner    ^) 

Muslin 

Penal        ^/ 

Milliner 

Criminal  »—  s—^/ 

Flannel 

NR 


Ner 


NI, 


Nel 


MR 


Mer 


ML 


Mel 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


FOURTEENTH  LESSON. 


COMBINED   CONSONANTS,    SHADED. 


The  combined  consonants  may  be  shaded  wholly  or  par- 
tially to  imply  D  or  T.  Difference  in  amount  of  shading 
may  sometimes  be  useful,  but  it  is  not  necessary,  as  the  con- 
text will  always  tell  which  letter  was  meant.  Partial  shading 
is  easier  for  the  pen  ;  whole  shading  is  just  as  easy  for  those 
who  use  a  pencil. 


9.  NDR,  ender 

10.  NTR,  enter 

11.  NDL,  endel 

12.  NTL,  entel 

13.  MRD,  merd 

14.  MRT,  mert 

15.  MLD,  meld 

16.  MLT,  melt 


I. 

2. 

RND, 
RNT, 

rend 
rent 

I 

r 

3- 

4- 

LND, 
LNT, 

lend 
lent 

1 

r 

5- 

RMD, 

remd  "j           —  .  . 

6. 

RMT, 

remt 

\ 

r 

7- 

8. 

LMD, 
LMT, 

lemd 
lemt 

I 

f— 

26  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

I.     RND      Earned  IT*         Spurned        /V*         Rained 

Errand  ^"*  Turned          ^*  Arraigned 

\,  /° 

Yearned  r^          Adjourned    y^  Environed 

Learned      xX^  Discerned   ^V*         Surrender 


R-ND    Strained 

a 

Rind 

x^           Ruined 

^> 

2.     RNT      Parent 

r 

Rent 

•  •               Warrant 

-r 

Current 

v-y* 

Aren't 

6                 Tarantula 

^> 

Burnt 

I- 

Weren't 

V* 

R-NT    Affront 

t 

Rental 

(J            Arrant 

O 

Different 

i 

Parental 

QJ           Rennet 

^ 

Difference 

i, 

Frontal 

&~t 

3.     LNT       Holland 

V* 

Ireland 

(S*            Hollander 

^ 

•    Highland 

^r 

England 

/» 

*-  _^J       Islander 

y^ 

Scotland 

^ 

i 

London 

/"*- 

/                  Colander 

u^ 

L-ND     Leaned 


Loaned 


Maligned 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

4.     LNT        Lentil          /""  Salient       ^~>  Excellent 

Silent        s~~v  Valiant        ff  Valentine 

~  /-T 

Gallant      ^~~—^4         Lantern      f  (Slant) 


5.     RMD       Warmed 

Wormed      Y" 
Squirmed     \f 


6.     RMT       (Rarely  used.) 

R-MT     Dreamt  Cramped 


27 


JT' 

Alarmed    °^^ 
Harmed      ^™" 
Stormed       (^   — 

* 
Informed 

(Rhymed) 
(Roomed) 

7.  LAID      (Rarely  used.) 

8.  LMT      (Rarely  used.) 


9.     NDR        Andrew 
Bender 
Binder 
Boundary 


Candor 
Commander 
Lavender 
Reminder 


^ 


Remit 


Wonder 
Splendor 
Blunder 
Tender 


28  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

10.     NTR     Anointer     Q-  £— <_^     Chanter  £j          Hunter       v_J 

Banter        U)  Daintier          ^j  Pointer      (oj 

Canter        \j^  Entrance       ^~^         Splinter 


N-TR  vAll  words  in  INTER,  INTRO. 


latory 


12.     NTL     Antelope   *^S*         Antler     n  ^/  Rental 

Cantelope 
Dental        ^_^X        Lintel     /"  """"       Ventilator 

N-TL,   All  words  in  MEN-TAL,  NENTAL. 


Q^/ 

**{_**        Frontal  rJL^S        Tantalize     o^*^ 
^«-^       . 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


13.     MRD     Hammered    Va    _   V    Glim-         *^x»     J  Humored 

mered 


o 

Demurred     <       J      Stam-         ^  ,    J    Enamored  l. 
mered 

Rumored      xl-    ^     Marauder  — .  V       Simmered 


M-RD  Murder         ^       Murdered  — -          Marred 

Murderous  ^       Meridian Admired 


^       Meridian         ^ 


14.     MRT     Samaritan    Q  _  -^     Merit       .. _ «x  Immor-    T_    -^j 

tal  7 

cx»^ 

Martin         M»X          Meri-  -^         Mor- 

torious  tality 


>^    Mailed     ^ X        Untram-        Jj       ^ 


15.     MLD     Enameled  , 

tneled 


16.     MLT     Melt 


-^      Multiple  ^   -s  Multi-      «*-pX/7 

tude  / 

-AS 


Melted        -     ^/       Multi- 
plex 


30  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


READING  AND  WRITING  EXERCISES. 


Short,  frequently-recurring  words  are  conveniently  repre- 
sented by  a  few  of  their  letters,  and  are  called  word-signs. 
The  very  short  light  stroke  representing  "the"  is  purely 
arbitrary ;  it  should  make  a  sharp  angle  with  the  word 
to  which  it  is  joined..  In  the  following  exercises,  use 
the  word-signs  for  all  words  printed  in  italics.  All  words 
connected  by  a  hyphen  are  intended  to  be  written  together 
without  lifting  the  pen.  Should  the  omission  of  an  obscure 
or  unnecessary  vowel  cause  difficulty  in  reading,  supply 
short  E. 


The  period  is  written  thus  x  ;  other  points,  when  needed, 
as  in  longhand.  When  the  article  "a"  is  pronounced  short, 
it  must  be  so  written.  Proper  names  are  underscored.  Words 
marked  with  an  asterisk  may  be  written  with  the  shaded  con- 
sonant, and  without  the  vowel. 


The  key  to  the  first  reading  exercise  is  the  one  in  ordi- 
nary type  immediately  following. 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  31 

Reading  Exercise  1.    (Circle  Vowels.) 

Word  Signs.     The       -  •  To        ^  With    \  Up          | 

Me       Of        O  Will  /\          That      ~\ 


Writing  Exercise  1. 

I.  77;<?-broad  road.  2.  The-] oily  actor  forces- me  /0-laugh. 
3.  A-bottle  o/~old  port.  4.  A-car  loaded  JX'^V/^  coal  will-be  at-the 
door.  5.  Will-you  bewith-me?  6.  Paul  e£/z7/  know  M<?-rnan. 
7.  77^^  old  rogue  ivill  laugli  at-  ;;/^.  8.  77^-daughter  of-that 
jolly  man  w///-hold  a-rose.  9.  Robert  tore  «/  /^ 
10.  Papa  will-be  a.t-the  ball  with-me.  n.  77r<?-lap  dog  Z£ 
hold  />  //^-old  cloak.  12.  7)&<?-cold  bath  over- />^i?  road. 


32  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

Reading  Exercise  2.     (Circle  Vowels.) 
Word  Signs.     All  O  Do  J  Me,  My 


And  «_          God        v ^        Not 

1  I         Heart       V 


Be,  By,  1  I         Heart        V  Or  X 

Buy        J  Care  **s          You,  Your        x 


Writing  Exercise  2. 

i.  7%^-road  to-the- heart.  2.  77z^-narrow  path  of -life. 
3.  Harry  read*  a-paragraph  of-lhe-book.  4.  7%£  editor*  wrote 
a-capital*  article*  for  /Mother* paper*.  5.  Charles  decorated* 
//jtf-hall  ze/^  flags  aw«^  flowers.  6.  See  ///«/  lone  cliff  by -the 
shore.  7.  77/£  still,  small  voice.  8.  Love  God  with-all-your- 
heart  and  soul.  9.  Do-not  roam  so  far,  Paul ;  you-do-not  know 
//^-road.  10.  Will-yon  take  care  of -me? 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  33 

Reading  Exercise  3.     (Circle  Vowels.) 


\ 

Ever          /  Has  VD  Our 

For  /  His,  is 


But  1  Give,  God      V. S  In  ^ 

io 


Writing  Exercise  3. 


1.  77/<?-captain  led  /^-brave  men  /0-battle. 

2.  77^  editor  e^z7/-write  all-the  articles  in-his  paper. 

3.  Give-your  copy  to-the  telegraph  operator. 

4.  P11-&?  a.t-t/ie  hall  at  half-past  three  /oday. 

5.  Let  our  motto  ever-be:  "For-  God  and  our  native  land/' 

6.  The  path  of  glory  leads  but  to  the  grave. 

7.  Human*  glory  often  comes  too  late  to-be  worth*  very 
much. 

8.  The  orator's  daughter  took  part  in-the  debate. 

9.  Do-not  waste  your  fragrance  on  this  desert*  air. 
10.  The  old  oaken  bucket  that  huns:  in-the-well*. 


34  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

Reading  Exercise  4.     (Dot  Vowels.) 
Word  Signs.    After      /  He     V_        Well,  will     \  Who    „ 


o  Lx    T  -^ 

~*^ 


Writing  Exercise  4. 

1.  The  better  the  day,  the  better  the  deed. 

2.  Words  are  the  close-fitting  dress  of  thought. 

3.  Ivife  is  like  a  city  full  of  crooked  streets. 

4.  The   cheapest   vase   on    the   mantel-piece  never  gets 
knocked  off ! 

5.  Laughter  is  like  playing  a  cornet  :  prettier  to  listen  to 
than  to  look  at. 

6.  Half  a  loaf  is  better  than  no  bread. 

7.  Remorse  is  the  echo  of  a  lost  virtue. 


35 
FIFTEENTH  LESSON 


WORI>-SIGNS. 

As  the  very  idea  of  a  word-sign  is  a  short  form  for  fre- 
quently-recurring words,  and  those  of  awkward  formation,  the 
student  can  easily  supply  himself  with  what  his  particular  line 
of  work  may  call  for.  With  the  salient  consonants  and  con- 
nective vowels  a  list  of  any  length  may  be  made.  As  a  rule, 
however,  the  less  the  memory  is  hampered,  the  better.  The 
following  list  will  meet  all  ordinary  requirements.  They 
should  be  carefully  copied,  and  written  over  and  over  again, 
the  pupil  meanwhile  pronouncing  the  English  equivalent. 

These  word-signs  may  be  freely  combined  with  each  other 
to  make  compound  or  derivative  word-signs,  care  being  taken 
to  keep  the  original  form  intact. 

Under  this  caption  are  arranged  for  convenience'  sake 
some  words  usually  written  without  vowels. 

§  i.  SIMPLE  ALPHABETIC  LETTERS  :  VOWELS. 

Have  o  If  >  How,  out  /& 

All,  of  o  I,  high  o  Who  - 

of  all  <S>  Employ  &  (The)  \^ 

In  0  You,  your  ^ 


36  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

§  2.   SIMPLE  ALPHABET  LETTERS  :   CONSONANTS. 

J       What  \ 

L 


Be,  been,  but 

(body  in  comp. 
Put,  up 

Give,  good,  God 
Could,  count 

(come  in  comp. 
Is,  his,  as 
as  is 
is  his 
Me,  my,  most 

(most  in  comp. 
On 

L  series 

Able,  bill 
Principal,  pie 
Glad,  glory 


Do,  done 
It,  to 
Ever,  every 
For,  favor 
Lord,  will 
Are,  or,  our 


Which,  each  ( 

We,  with,  would  \         Just 

we  would  ^ 

would  we  *-\ 
(ward  in  comp. 

§  3.    SIMPLE  SHADED  LETTERS. 
R  series 

I  Brother  1 

I  Proper  i 

^••^  Great  ^— -^ 


J         He,  him,  heart 
/  (hand  in  comp. 

I  She,  should,  wish     L. 

, —  (short  in  comp. 

/         Young  J 

They,  them,  than      ~) 
(thing  in  comp. 

c 


L,  M,  N,  R. 

Not  .^ 
And  ^. 
Says  s •> 


Call 

Sell,  sale 
Deliver 


Tell,  till,  telegraph 
Value                      / 

)    Truth 
Very 

; 
/ 

Feel,  full               / 

From,  friend 

/ 

Child                    C 

Jury 

( 

Well,  will          N 

Were, 

\ 

Whole,  help       V. 

Where 

\ 

Shall                    C 

Her,  hard 

^. 

Quality,  equal        ^ 

Share 

c 

Y'ear 

^ 

, 

Their,  through 

Choir 

About 
Above 
According 
Acquaint 


c 


8  4.    MISCELLANEOUS. 
After  /  Any 

A 

Afternoon 
Hereafter 
Always 


Because 
Believe 
Between 


u 


448388 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


Beyond           W 

Country                *^/i 

Whatsoever 

V^o 

Body 

Course                   v.3 

Expense 

/ 

Anybody       | 

Discount                iJ, 

For 

Everybody    X 

During                  J^^-  

Forever 

/ 

Nobody 

Earth                    "?y 

Forevermore 

f^_j 

I 

Busybody    ^~p 

1     1 

Business         \^  —  ^ 

Energy                  "7^ 
Enough                 f* 

Before 
Therefore 

\ 

Can                  s^ 

Enquire                   ^ 

Wherefore 

V 

Character       *-s\S 

Ever 

Form 

Character-      \-A^A^ 

Whichever           / 

Firm 

^  — 

istic        _ 

/ 

Church              f 

Whichsoever        ^^ 

Infirm 

?  — 

• 

/ 

w 

Come 

Whoever              7 

Form 

1  — 

Become      O 

/ 

Whosoever            j 

Inform 

ft- 

Income        ^/ 
Outcome     9L_y 

Whosesoever     "ViO 
Whomsoever    '       /O^ 

Reform 

Formality 

t> 

Shortcom-  x_>\^  ^ 
ing 

/     However             7^ 

Foreman 

^- 

Conduct          v^- 

Howsoever        /&~*r~* 

Foeman 

/  

I 

(7 

Conscience     ^_ 

Wherever          "V 

Foremost 

</- 

Conse-             \~s~*\ 
quence 
Could              ^ 

Wheresoever       ^-^«O 
Whatever         \ 

Foam 
First 

(/- 

6 

NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPH-Y. 


39 


Government        / 

Most 

Out 

Had                  V_p 

Foremost          /^ 

Without 

Hand 

Almost               Q  

Outcast 

Beforehand    L 

Hindmost         sj" 

House 

Behindhand      ""  J 

Nethermost        "^ 

Over 

Longhand       O    ^N- 
Shorthand    1 

Utmost              2  
Mr.                       ^ 

Moreover 
Overdue 

Heaven           V^ 

Mrs.                     _     -    —  , 

N      Overcast 

In                      ' 

Messrs.                ,       ^O 

Overthrow 

Into              0 

Must                    _     _ 

Particular 

Unto             j 

Much                           .- 

Perhaps 

Inferior       Ts>S' 

Name                        t 

Public 

Insurance    ^ 

Never                    / 

Publish 

Important        *") 
Improper        ^ 

Newspaper 
Object                   I 

Purpose 
Question 

Improve-          ^ 
ment      

Judge                  ( 
Lady                  X^ 

One 
Any  one             % 
Every  one         / 

Railroad 
Railway 
Relative 

Language         j/^ 

No  one               O 

Reply 

!> 


4o 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


Regret               /K-—' 

Stand 

^TP, 

1 

Sake                  ^^f 

Notwithstanding        \s~\ 

Upon 

L 

Self 

Understanding       k~\ 

Upward 

L 

Himself         Vx-> 

Still                      x-v 

Usual 

t. 

Herself           Vw^N 

Strength               .^ 

Various 

A 

Myself           _   ^^ 

Strong                  ^'•j 
O^  _^S 

Was 

v> 

Yourself         **\ 

Subject 

Where 

Yourselves       A^^ 

Such                     ^ 

Anywhere 

"\ 

Self-evident      /^  A 
Self-love        *«^// 

That                     •> 
Thing 

Elsewhere      /^  v. 

/ 

Everywhere       A 

Sister               ^  —  \ 

Anything          "~i 

Nowhere 

_O 

Society            s~ft~°) 

Work            N 

^^> 

Some              *~\^— 

Nothing              «—  v 

World           > 

X 

Sometimes     x"\___ 

Something      ^^^ 

Write          ^ 

? 

Speak             '"j 

This                      TN 

Written       ^ 

<*> 

Speech           O 

Time                    ^J  

Yesterday 

? 

Special            O 

United  States      ^-^ 

J 

Spirit             -^^ 

U.  S.  of  America  y^j       ^ 

NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


SIXTEENTH  LESSON. 


PHRASE-WRITING. 


I  have  been 
We  have  been 
They  have 
They  have  not 
They  would  be 
They  would  have  been 
We  should  be 
I  can 
I  could 
I  do 
I  did 
I  shall 
I  am 

I  have  done 
I  have  had 


§  I.      COMMON    PHRASES. 

He  has  been 
I  must  do 
I  might  be 

•  Let  us  not 

I  cannot 
He  will  not 
What  do  you  think  ? 
What  do  you  do  ? 
What  do  you  say  ? 
As  well  as 
As  good  as 
At  last 
To  which 
For  this 
For  these 


y 


s 


6 
^ 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


It  is 
It  is  not 
This  is 
That  is 
In  this  case 


In  no  case 

In  any  case 

In  all  cases 

For  the  sake  of 

In  the  name  of      ?         (*) 


In  the  following  phrases  the  particle  that  intervenes  be- 
tween the  principal  or  contrasted  words  may  be  omitted. 


By  and  by 
More  and  more 
I/ess  and  less 
Higher  and  higher 
The  Kings  of  Kings 
The  Lord  of  Lords 
From  day  to  day 


Heaven  and  earth 
Day  and  night 
Old  and  young 
Far  and  near 
To  and  fro 
Yres,  sir 
No,  sir 


^ 


Dear  Sir 
Gentlemen 
Kind  Fiiend 
My  dear  Friends 


§  2.      BUSINESS   PHRASES. 

JL  My  dear  brethren 

/  Dearly  beloved  b'r'n 


Judge  and  jury 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 
Gentlemen  of  the  jury  (  Yours  truly 


43 


Ladies  and  Gentlemen 

I  am  in  receipt 
We  are  in  receipt 
....  of  your  letter 

....  of  your  favor 
....  of  your  order 
We  have  received  your  order 


J 


Yours  respectfully 
Yours  very  truly 
Very  truly  yours 
Very  respectfully 
We  remain 
Your  obedient  servants 


"V 

/ 

/ 


L_ 
O 


GENERAL  CONTRACTIONS. 


Some  words  are  half  head,  half  tail,  and  no  body  !  Take 
the  word  multitude  for  instance.  Here  the  head  or  prefix  is 
mulfi,  the  tail  is  tude  ;  and  that's  all  there's  to  it  !  If  all  long 
words  were  of  this  pattern,  stenography  would  be  charmingly 
simple.  Take  another  instance,  contradiction.  Here  the 
prefix  is  contra,  the  body  is  die,  and  the  termination  tion. 

Now,  the  general  principle  is  that  stenography  furnishes 
contracted  forms  for  the  prefixes  and  terminations  of  words, 
but  only  useless  or  difficult  letters  are  omitted  from  the  body 
of  words.  In  stenographs,  however,  the  whole  word  is  con- 
tracted, so  that  only  the  leading  part  of  it  is  written. 

In  the  following  chapters,  the  whole  subject  of  contrac- 
tions will  be  taken  up  in  the  following  order  :  i.  Termina- 
tions ;  2.  Prefixes;  3.  Letters  Omitted;  4.  Stenographed 
Words. 


44 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


SEVENTEENTH  LESSON, 


I. 

Ary 

TERMINATIONS. 

Lessly     / 

9.     Ful             /                   17. 

2. 

Ble 

1 

10.     Hood         V                    18. 

Ment       

3- 
4- 

Bility 
Dom 

J 
J 

ii.     Kind          ^/                19. 
12.     Ity              )                  20. 

Nent        j_ 

Ness        __ 

5- 

Dence 

JL 

13.     Lar         S                   21. 

Ship         L 

6. 

Egy 

C 

X? 

14.     1/anty      /^                 22. 

Tial           C 

7- 

Fie 

/ 

15.     Less        /S                23. 

Tude           / 

8. 
I. 

Fical 
Dilatory 

6 

*r 

Z*^> 

1  6.     Ly            /^               24. 

Ward         X 
Ability 

2.     Commend-              .          3- 
able 

Dormitory 
January 

±f 

06 

Companion-      V""1iO 
able        d~*   T 

Compatible      M 

Legi- 
bility 

Proba- 
bility 

Stationary 


Laudable 


Y 


'\ 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


45 


4- 

KiDd!m   "^9 

Thral-            >^7 
dom                 •/ 

Helpful 
Handful 

S         " 

Singular 

Wis- 
dom 

^ 

Thankful 

^—^     I4' 

Singu- 
larity 

—  ' 

T?  p<rn  - 

xs.egu 

larity 

5 

,  Confi- 
dence 

i" 

Child- 
hood 

<t 

Polarity 

Abun- 
dance 

t^ 

Manhood 

V_ 

Hilarity 

Provi- 
dence 

/ 

Boyhood 

I  a 

6 

•  Elegy 
/-\  _  _i 

^ 

^       ii. 

£s 

Mankind 

TT         1*1 

—  -• 

Fearless 
Heartless 

LrCOl-            ^ 

ogy    # 

Theol- 

n 
^f 

Unkind 

6 

Dearly 

ogy 

^  \ 

12. 

Density 

J, 

Nearly 

7 

.  Pacific 

J-> 

Infinity 

2- 

Manly 

/ 

Scien-      ^j-7 
tific           / 

Angu- 
larity 

Z^~ 

Terrific 

^ 

Rascality 

/!**       17. 

Fear- 

/ 

^ 

lessly 

8 

.  Geograph- 
ical 

0^-3. 

Ocular 

o^    • 

Base- 
ment 

Philo- 

l/^^ 

Tubular 

q 

sophical 

* 

Conceal- 
ment 

Pontifical 

^ 

Regular 

^  ^ 

^ 


i 
K~\___ 


46                              NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

19.  Continent         /  \  . 

21.  Owner- 

0>L 

Fortitude 

ship 

Impertinent          J^ 

S**' 

Adjacent        (_/""" 

Work- 
manship 
Friend- 
ship 

C 

Gratitude 

Consti- 
tute 

^* 
Consistent     *-*'         * 

j 

Institute 

L. 

Consistency    *~/*~    ) 

22.  Essential 

~x 

Consistently    ^_^~~~~ 

jX"        Partial 

<HV       24- 

After- 

* 

ward 

Palatial 

)s 

Awkward 

20.  Kindness          v_T  \ 

Creden- 

H 

Inward 

tial 

^ 

Goodness         v^^^/— 
Conscious-        ^^P-r^ 

Provi- 
dential 

^ 

Outward 
Reward 

ness 

Conscien-        **P 
tiousness       (jr* 

23.  Ampli- 
tude 

7 

The  sound  of  SHN  (and  the  allied  sound  of  Chn)  is  de- 
noted by  writing  a  dot  at  the  end  of  the  preceding  vowel  or 
consonant.  This  dot  is  generally  unnecessary,  as  the  imper- 
fect word  can  be  considered  a  stenograph,  and  be  legible  under 
ordinary  rules  ;  but  its  insertion  is  sometimes  needed,  and 
will  always  insure  greater  legibility. 


Ocean 
Admiration 
Constitution 
Consecration 


O» 


^"1^ 


Christian  a^-o^* 

Christianity  %^s>^\* 

Confusion  f, 

Eiysian  /VX         Combustion          |^a 


Musician 

Suggestion 

Sebastian 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


47 


EIGHTEENTH  LESSON. 


1.  Ad 

2.  Ante  -i 

3.  And    J 

4.  Circum 

5.  Com,  Con 

6.  Counter  - 

7.  Contra     - 

8.  De 

9.  Dis 

10.  Em,  Am 


PREFIXES. 

§1.      SIMPLE  PREFIXES. 
'  ii.  En  _  21.  Per 

12.  Ex  \O  22.  Pro  t 

9 

13.  Extra  ....  23.  Sub  s 
"^           14.  For,  Fur          /          24.  Subter 

^  15.  Fore  (J  25.  Super 


c) 


16.  Hypo 

17.  Im,  In 

1 8.  Intro 


J6.  Sus  ^-  •    - 

27.  Trans  v 

28.  Un  /• 


19.  Magni         ....  29.  Under  \ 

20.  Multi        «j.._-^ 


48                             NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

Addition           -X 

Continue 

^ 

/ 

Emphasis       «<        s 

; 

Advise               /  —  •» 

Construct 

^ 

Emphatic    "     a' 

Adjourn              r* 
Advent               Z- 

Countermand 

—  

Endeavor           / 

Antecedent               J 

Countermarch 
Contribute 

n 

Enemy           -^  ^ 
Engage       -N^ 

Antedate                      V 

Contradiction 

^/  • 

Exceed         ^--**p 

Antidote                      T 

Contralto 

^ 

Excise       N_^*        N 

Antithesis        A. 

Contrariety 

^ 

Exercise    \^s~-^  

Exotic          ^O 

Circumspect          O" 

Deface 

i 

Explain         v        \ 

Circumstance           ^\ 
Circumvent             / 

Describe 
Distract 

t! 

Exagger-              ]f 
ate 

Expel        ^^j 

District 

x^ 

Common          *.-f? 

Distort 

Extravagant          r 

Commune        v^O  
—  ; 

r^^**^«i.»                 ^™*1 

Disgrace 

^J 

•)   Exterminate  ^~/ 

Comply                   \j 

»^4 

Compound             I— 

Embassy 

~K 

Extricate             J 

Content                ^2. 

Embrace 

-~u 

Forgive            <.  s 

NEW   AMERICAN  STENOGRAPHY. 


49 


Formidable     /         p 
Foreign                 /^~ 
Foreigner            j_^ 

Immense       1           •  ^ 

Permit 
Persecute 
Peremptory 
PrScgdents 
Precedence 

Incapacitate          (T^l 
Inherit                 X^. 
Inspire                    I/ 

Foremost         ^ 

Foretell             Cj 

Intellect                ^ 
Instruct                ^^ 
Instrument           )    ^ 
Intone                 ^~ 

Preoccupied 
Presume 

Furnace           r^~^ 
Furnish            /^V_ 

Probate 
Profound 
Proj  ect 

Hypothesis      ^S~ 

Introduce            Q' 

Hypothe-            j^- 
cate        J^ 

Hypocrite          x  — 

In  term  i-             2.  
nable 

Intermittent     ^  

Promise 

Submissive 
Subterfuge 

Impose                   'I 

Magnani-              ~^ 
mous 

Improper               ^ 
Impropriety          r\ 
Image                   7^ 
Imitate                   ^ 

Magnificent         —  _ 

Subterranean 
Supersede 
Superfluous 
Superlative 

Multiply                ^/ 
Multitude           __^/) 

50 

NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

Insuperable 

jp       Transact 
Transient 

/•-  —  "s 

oLx          Untold 

c^-i          Under- 
^                estimate 

Susceptible 

P      Transcend 

«J-^          Understand 

Suspect 
Suspend 

^\.    Intrinsic 

Jt              Understood 

Misunder- 
stand 

*" 

Suspicious 

*~~  ~~*\         Unnecessary 
Unparalleled    t 

1  Underfed 
y>^      Undertake 

§2.       COMPOUND 

PREFIXES. 

Discon,  m 

Ji                Recom,  n 

X  —  "              Unfor 

Imper 

ft                  Redis 

^} 
^/^               Unim,  n 

Inad 

<o                  Refor 

7                  Unpre,  o 

Incom,  n 

*,              Una 

-*                   Unre 

Inex 
Insub 

•  «  Q                 r  Unaccom 
^]                  v  Unaccount 

Unsus 
A^ 

Untrans 

Miscon,  m 

—              Uncom,  n 

— 

Noncom,  n 

.              Unex 

».  .  j 

XO 

NEW   AMERICAN    STENOGRAPHY. 


Discontent 

Noncom- 
^7                  mittal 

vf>      .       Unex- 
^                ampled 

Discontinue 

JLn    Noncon- 
~~J                formist 

C^            Unexcelled 

Imperative 

d       Recognize 

X*-Q  ^     Unfortunate 

Inadmissable 

'ft    ^  Recommend 

/*  O               Unforeseen 

i 

1 

/ 

Incomplete 

^-4        Reconcile      / 

*-^~Y           Unfurnished 

Incontestable 

•3-^       Reformation 

"/                   Unimpor- 
tant 

Inexperienced 

<V"~VO    Unaccus- 
tomed 

^7             Uninten- 
tional 

Inexplicable 

k       Unalloyed 

)f^^           Unprece- 
dented 

Inexpressible 

''^V-      Unassuming     J 

^^                Unprotected 

Insubordinate 

''O        Unaccom- 
JX                panied 

^f            Unregen- 
erate 

Insuperable 

Unaccount- 
f                      able 

*-j             Unsus- 
pecting 

Insupportable 

/y"jx«      Uncon- 
trollable 

^^l|       Untransfer- 
able 

Misconduct       - 

•—  -}  ^       Unconverted 

7             Untrans- 
latable 

I 


1 


52  NEW   AMERICAN  STENOGRAPHY. 

NINETEENTH  LESSON. 


LETTERS  OMITTED. 


Besides  silent  and  unnecessary  letters,  those  that  are  dif- 
ficult are  omitted. 

Circle-vowels  should  be  inserted  whenever  practicable. 

The  long  vowels  are  but  seldom  omitted,  especially  in  the 
forepart  of  words. 

Omit  P  from  MP  except  in  monosyllables;  still,  if  these 
two  letters  belong  to  different  syllables,  both  are  written. 

Difficult  letters  omitted  : — 

a.  Omit  Th  after  lengthened  G. 

b.  Omit  T  in  syllables  ending  in  CT,  -PT,  FT,  VT. 
Simple  N  may  be  omitted  after  RJ  ;  as  in  margin,  virgin, 

surgeon,  origin,  emergency. 

Simple  N  may  be  omitted  before  another  consonant, 
terminations  excepted  ;  as,  against,  change,  messenger,  pas- 
senger. 

R  may  be  omitted  before  Th  ;  as,  hearth,  earth,  forth. 


Circle- Vowels  Inserted.  Rotary       <j  Deed 

Salary      ^jf^  Rhetoric    x'2-/  Dude 

Celery    ^^^  Long  Vowels  Inserted.  Fever 

Marry  ^  Size    ^ NO  Favor 

Merry     ___-x^  Died  J  Preside       ^—\ 


NEW 


AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  53 

Concept 

Except  ) 

Precept 


54  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

TWENTIETH  LESSON. 


SYLLABLES  OMITTED. 


Many  words  admit  of  being  expressed  by  their  leading 
initial  syllables,  and  the  longer  the  words  are,  the  more 
safely  may  they  be  thus  shortened.  The  idea  that  suggests 
the  employment  of  certain  letters  to  represent  short,  common 
words  (word-signs),  is  logically  extended  to  represent  an  en- 
tire long  word  by  some  of  its  distinctive  syllables.  For 
instance,  in  the  sentence  "Remem.  my  advice,"  anyone  can 
fill  out  the  unwritten  portion  of  the  first  word.  Now,  every 
stenographed  word  is  just  as  clear. 

The  same  contraction,  or  stenograph,  may  stand  for  sev- 
eral words  without  causing  confusion.  Take  the  stenograph 
used  above,  remem.,  and  make  a  new  sentence  :  "Do  this  in 
remem.  of  me."  We  have  here  the  noun  remembrance, 
instead  of  the  verb  remember,  the  context  naturally  suggest- 
ing the  word  needed. 

Let  us  see  the  reasonableness  and  feasibleness  of  this 
method  of  approximate  writing  by  further  examples  : — 

These  goods  were  manufac.  (tured)  in  this  country. 

Questions  of  import,  (ance)  require  delib.  (eration). 

The  doc(tor)  thought  his  patient  showed  signs  of 
improve(ment). 

The  subject-mat(ter)  of  his  conversa(tion)  was  utterly 
insig(nificant). 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  55 

His  theme  was  quite  orig(inal) :  the  omnipotence)  of 
God. 

From  these  instances  one  can  clearly  see  how  nearly  every 
long  word  in  the  language  may  be  abbreviated  without 
jeopardizing  the  sense,  or  burdening  the  memory  with  special 
word-signs.  Surely  it  is  not  too  much  to  suppose  that  the 
student  of  stenography  has  a  fair  command  of  words,  and  a 
practical  command  of  grammar,  and  (un)common  sense.  With 
these  qualifications,  no  difficulty  will  be  experienced  in  each 
one  making  his  own  stenographs. 

In  the  following  short  list,  the  first  syllables,  as  marked, 
will  suffice  in  most  cases,  not  only  for  the  primary  words,  but 
for  all  their  derivatives  as  well.  At  most,  the  suitable  termi- 
nations might  be  appended. 

WORDS  STENOGRAPHED. 


Abom-inate,  able 
Accep-table,  tance 
Acknowl-edge,  tnent 
Acquaint-ance 
Arrange-ment 
Avoid-able,  ance 
Benig-nity  ;  Dig-nity 
Correspond,  ent,  ence 
Degen-erate,  acy 


Delib-erate,  ately 
Deliv-er,  ance 
Diff-icult,  y 
Dif-ferent,  ly,  ence 
Emanc-ipate 
Enclosed,  ing 
Exac-t,  ly,  ness 
Itnag-itie,  ary 
Impor-tant,  ance 


56  NEW   AMERICAN 

Improve-d,  ment 
Inher-it,  ance 
Magnif-icent,  ly 
Merch-ant,  andise 
Nat-ural,  ly 
Omnip-otent,  ence 
Orig-in,  al,  ality 
Pleas-ant,  ly 
Quest-ion,  ioner,  able 
Recip-ient ;  reciprocate 


STENOGRAPHY. 

Remem-ber,  brance 

Satis-fy,  factory 

Scrip-ture,  tural 

Sent-ence 

Sig-nature  ;  nify 

Stimul-ate,  ant 

Suff-icient 

System-  atical-ly 

Stenog-raphy 

Univ-erse,  al,  ly  ;    university 


ON   STENOGRAPHING    FIGURES. 

Figures  can  be  reasonably  and  easily  stenographed,  as 
well  as  words. 

It  will  promote  legibility  if  isolated,  or  small  numbers  are 
written  above  the  line  of  writing,  or  are  underscored. 

Figures  represented  by  a  line  require  a  small  circle  when 
joined  together. 

H  stands  for  hundred  ;  TH  for  thousand  ;  ML  for  million  ; 
DS  for  dollars  ;  SS  for  cents  ;  Pr-S  for  per  cent. 

Fractions  are  written  with  a  line  drawn  through  the 
figures  expressing  them. 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  57 

The  figures  may  stand  for  the  corresponding  numeral 
adjectives  and  adverbs. 

When  units,  tens,  and  hundreds  are  to  be  written  to- 
gether, it  will  suffice  to  write  the  signs  consecutively.  Thus 
in  the  phrase:  He  bought  a  hundred  and  twenty-five  shares, 
write  :  one  twenty-five,  and  not  one  H  and  twenty-five ;  unless 
every  word  is  intended  to  be  unusually  emphatic. 


_    /  > 

12345 
67890 
27  million 
13  hundred  V N> 

$35-19 
Five-sixths 

Three-quarters,  three-fourths 

s 

Seven-eighths  ^v-^ 

First,  firstly  Z, 

Third,  thirdly  ** 

Tenth  ^> 


58  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

EXERCISE   ON   THE   FIGURES. 

1.  A  stitch  in  time  saves  nine. 

2.  Take  care  of  the  cents ;  the  dollars  will  take  care  of 
themselves. 

3.  A  cent  wise ;  a  dollar  foolish. 

4.  He  took  a  five-mile  run  to  jump  over  a  creek  ! 

5.  What  is  the  interest  on  three  hundred  and  seventy- 
seven  dollars  for  three  years  and  a  half,  at  six  per  cent? 

6.  The  sermon  was  on  the  twenty -fifth  chapter  of  St. 
Matthew,  from  the  first  verse  to  the  thirteenth. 


HINTS  ON  JOINING  CONSONANT  OUTLINES. 

Obscure  vowels,  that  is  vowels  pronounced  indistinctly, 
need  not  be  written,  save  when  their  insertion  will  insure 
greater  legibility  and  speed. 

When  a  vowel  intervenes  between  S  and  a  following  con- 
sonant in  an  initial  syllable,  the  full  alphabetic  form  of  S  is 
written  ;  when  there  is  no  vowel,  S  is  written  as  a  loop, 
except  with  L  and  R. 

When  RR,  RL,  FF,  or  FV,  are  written  together,  the 
outline  must  be  ticked  to  guide  the  eye ;  such  tick  often  be- 
ing the  intervening  vowel. 

When  writing  vowels  in  the  outline  of  words,  awkward 
joinings  must  be  avoided  ;  and  when  no  easy  way  offers,  the 
vowels  must  be  omitted.  This  is  especially  the  case  with  the 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  59 

dash-vowels  ;  the  circle-vowels  need  scarcely  ever  be  disjoined 
or  omitted,  since  their  very  purpose  is  to  facilitate  joinings. 

The  circle-vowels  are  to  be  written  generally  on  the  in- 
side of  curves,  on  the  upper  side  of  horizontal  letters  (M  and 
N),  and  on  the  right-hand  side  of  perpendicular  or  slanting 
letters.  When  a  straight  line  is  joined  to  a  curve,  that  join- 
ing is  to  be  preferred  that  requires  the  fewest  pen-strokes,  and 
looks  the  neatest. 

In  a  few  words  (like  divided),  when  the  entire  outline 
would  encroach  on  the  lower  line,  the  last  syllable  may  be 
written  alongside.  In  verbatim  work,  however,  this  is  rarely, 
if  ever,  necessary,  as  a  legible  stenograph  of  a  long  word  does 
not  require  the  whole  of  it  to  be  written. 


60 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 
Reading  Exercise  5. 


V    - 


v  I       /- 

>•  L       /r 


cK« 


); 


•xr  "»  y^»  / ' rf*  "V 

S-\-<^<    (  2.  ^_,, 

/      ^J     *^f  ^V.     N ^      V'     ^y^    y 

-ws    J    >v~, 


x9    ! 


I  X  T 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  6 1 

Key  to  Reading  Exercise  5. 

1.  Beyond  the  stars  there  is  rest. 

2.  Experience  is  the  extract  of  suffering. 

3.  United  we  stand,  divided  we  fall. 

4.  Youth  should  be  a  savings-bank. 

5.  Genius  begins  great  works  :  labor  alone  finishes  them. 

6.  A  little  suffering  here  below  :  an  eternity  of  reward 
hereafter. 

7.  Smiles  are  the  language  of  love. 

8.  There's  nothing  true  but  heaven. 

9.  Small  things  are  best,  grief  and  unrest 

To  rank  and  wealth  are  given  ; 
But  little  things  on  little  wings 
Bear  little  souls  to  heaven. 

10.  Alas  !  how  easily  things  go  wrong  ! 
A  kiss  too  much,  or  a  sigh  too  long  ; 
Then  comes  a  tempest  with  blinding  rain, 
And  life  is  never  the  same  again  ! 

11.  A  little  heat  that  can't  be  beat, 

A  window  opened  wide  ; 
A  little  breeze,  a  little  sneeze, 

And  you're  the  doctor's  pride  ! 

12.  For  a  third-class  joke,  many  a  man  has  lost  a  first- 
class  friend. 


62  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

13.  The  snows  of  age  fall  slowly,  but  they  never  melt 

14.  God  made  the  country,  man  made  the  town. 

15.  One  along  with  God  is  a  majority. 

16.  Gratitude  is  the  memory  of  the  heart. 

17.  Wake  not  a  sleeping  lion  ! 

18.  A  goose's  quill  often  hurts  more  than  a  lion's  claw  ! 

19.  After  speech,  silence  is  the  greatest  power  in  the  world. 

20.  Be  silent,  or  say  something  better  than  silence. 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  63 

Writing  Exercise  5. 

1.  It  is  better  to  know  than  to  think. 

2.  To  think  is  like  gathering  flowers :    to  speak  is  to 
weave  them  into  garlands. 

3.  Writing  with  a  pencil  is  like  speaking  with  a  low  voice. 

4.  Mere  kindness  from  some  is  more  than  love  from  others. 

5.  We  are  always  looking  into  the  future,  but  we  see  only 
the  past. 

6.  Make   up  your   mind   to  do  a  thing,  and  you  will 
succeed. 

7.  With    God's  presence  and  God's   promise,    we   can 
afford  to  be  cheerful. 

8.  A  spark  may  set  a  great  house  on  fire  ;  and  a  fit  of 
anger  may  ruin  your  whole  life. 

9.  The  latest  from  France — Love  at  twenty  is  a  pleas- 
ure, love  at  thirty  is  a  necessity,  love  at  forty  is  a  habit. 

10.  Johnson  said  that  every  man  is  a  rascal  as  soon  as 
he  gets  sick. 

IT.     There  is  no  limit  to   the  age  at  which  a  man  can 
make  a  fool  of  himself. 

12.  It  does  not  make   much   difference   under   which 
planet  a  person  is  born,  as  long  as  he  keeps  on  the  earth. 

13.  Every  animal  has  an  enemy  in  the  shape  of  another 
animal  of  a  different  species  ;  but  man's  worst  enemy  is  man! 

14.  Man  wants  but  little  here  below,  nor  wants  that 
little  long. 


64  NEW    AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

GENERAL  DRILLS. 

The  student  must  remember  that  one's  ability  to  write 
any  spoken  sentence  rapidly  and  legibly,  depends  on  one's 
previous  ability  to  write  correctly  the  individual  words  of 
which  the  sentence  is  made  up.  To  cultivate  this  readiness, 
correctness  and  speed,  the 'following  general  drills  should  be 
written,  first  from  the  student's  private  study,  and  then  from 
moderately  rapid  dictation. 

In  special  or  difficult  words,  the  letters  that  may  be 
omitted  are  marked  with  an  asterisk  (*)  ;  blended  and  double 
letters  are  marked  with  a  bind  (— •)  underneath. 

i.     BR  and  PR,  initial. 

The  partially  sJiaded  consonant  is  to  be  used.  See  Eighth 
Lesson,  page  14. 

Breeze  break  brain  broom  broach  broth  brass  brown  broil 

bridge   brag  brandy  branch  bronze  bribe  brew  brow  broke 

* 

brook. 

Prim    prince  probate   propose    prepay  produce    prodigy 

pretty  precious  press  prize  prime  prosy. 

When  a  vowel  occurs  between  B  and  R,  R  must  be 
written  in  full,  except  in  proper  names. 

Burrow  borrow  berry  burnish  bargain  barbarian  barefaced 

*-_ '*  **  ** 

barbecue  barnacle  barrack  boorish. 

*  *  -^^   -^-s  *  * 

Birmingham  Burlington  Bartholomew. 


*  * 


a.      The  initial  syllables  par  pir  por  pur  must  be  written 
injnll. 


NEW    AMERICAN    STENOGRAPHY.  65 

b.  When  per  is  a  prefix,  R  is  omitted  before  S,  M,  N,  D, 
T"t  and  is  ivritten  before  all  the  other  consonants. 

c.  When  per  is  not  a  prefix,  R  is  written  in  full. 

d.  In  any  case,  when  a  vowel  (that  is  written}  comes  after 
R,  tJien  R  must  be  written  separately. 

bl )  R    not     written :      Perceive     percentage     perdition 

peremptory  permanent  permission  permissable  permit  permute 

*  ** 

permutation       pernicious      pertinent      pertain      pertinacity 

*  N *  *  * 

perturbation. 

b-}  R  is   written   in  full :  Percolate  perchance  purchase 

percussion  perjury  perfect  perfidy  perforate  perform  performance 

*  *  *        *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *      * 

perfume  perfunctory  perpendicular  perpetrate  perpetual  perplex 

perquisite  pervade  pervert  perversion  perverse. 

*  *  *  *  - —        . — i  •, — < 

c.}  R  is  written  in  full :   Perch  pert  perry. 

d.)  R  is  written   in  full:  Perennial  peril  period  perish 

*  *. . 

peruse  perambulate  perhaps. 

BR  and  PR,  medial  and  final.     (Shaded  letter?) 

Amber  arbor  barber  bibber  bribery  cambric  chamber  ember 

* 

embrace    embroider    fabric    fibre  harbor  labor  liberty  library 

lumber  member  membrane  robber  rubber  sabre  sombre  Tiber 

. .  * 

timber  tuber. 

Approach  caprice  copper  deeper  keeper  leaper  leper  moper 
nippers  pepper  peeper  piper  reaper  shipper  shepherd  sleeper 

stopper   tamper   temper   toper   torpor   vapor   viper    wrapper 
whopper. 


66  NEW  AMERICAN  STENOGRAPHY. 

2.  GR  and  KR,  initial. 

Grab  grand  granary  granite  gracious  grain  graven  gravity 

greedy  grieve  grin  grip  grow  groan  groom  grunt. 

Creek  creep  cream  crease  crow  croak  chromo  crab  crop 
cross  crag  crack  cry  crew  crash  chronic  crutch. 
GR  and  KR,  medial  and  final. 

Aggravate     agree     chagrin     degree     diagram     epigram 

* 

monogram  negro  phonograph  telegraph. 

Broker  croaker  cracker  crockery  decree  democrat  encroach 

* 

euchre  lucre  joker  lacquer  liquor  ludicrous  maker  mocker}' 
sucker  talker  thicker  walker  New-Yorker. 

3.  DR  and  TR,  initial. 

Draw   drawback  drawn  drank  drink  drunk  drag  dram 

* 

drum  drear  drake  drainage  dross  drove  draft  dry  drive  drivel 

#  x_x 

drop  dropsy  drowsy  drench. 

Treat  treatise  train  trick  trim  track  trap  trash  tramway 

* 

tribe  trade  trapper  trooper  true  trill  trough  trait  tread  tress 
trench  trinity  tragedy  trophy. 
DR,  TR,  medial  and  final. 

Adder  address  bidder  chowder  fodder  ladder  madder 
madrigal  rider  ruder  sadder  cider  solder  shudder  spider. 

Altar  actor  atrocious  batter  better  betray  carter  crater 
chatter  charter  daughter  debtor  doctor  entreat  entry  factory 
fighter  fitter  gaiter  gutter  hater  hatter  heater  halter  hotter 

caterpillar    cutter    latter    litter  loiter  matter   mutter   nectar 

*  *  * 

nocturnal  orator  patter  penetrate  porter  portrait  pewter  putrid 
retreat  retrieve  Saturday  scatter  spectre  stutter  sultry. 


XKW   AMERICAN  STENOGRAPHY.  67 

4.  VR,  FR,  medial  and  final. 

Braver  carver  cover  engraver  giver  liver  lover  overbearing 

*  • 

overlook  rover  quiver  saver  savory. 

*  *  -- — •• 

Africa  camphor  coffer  differ  defraud  diaphragm  gopher 

* 

heifer  loafer  offer  rougher  safer  suffer  cipher  tougher  wafer 
zephyr. 

5.  SHR,  initial,  medial  and  final. 

Shrank-  shrink  shred  shriek  shrive  shrine  shrill  shrewd 
shrub  shrug  shroud  shrapnel  ; — assure  beneficiary  brochure 

commensurate  censure  cynosure  embellisher  enshrine  finisher 
furnisher  harsher  insure  judiciary  polisher  pusher  rasher 
tertiary  tonsure  varnisher ;  azure  exposure  glazier  enclosure 

leisure  luxury  measure  pleasure  seizure  treasure. 

• 

6.  MR,  NR,  initial,  medial  and  final. 

Mercy  merit   mercury  merge  morbid    mordant   morgue 

*  »  -^-s 

mormon  morning  morphine  mortal  mortification   mortgage 

murmur.     Calmer  dreamer  drummer  enamor  framer  grammar 

* 

hammer  humeral  Homer  lamer  memorable  numeral  palmer 

^_^s  * 

plumber  rumor  summer  timorous  tremor  trimmer  tumor. — 

* 

Anarchy  banner  corner  enervate  enormous  gainer  ignorant 

manner    meaner    mariner    mourner    nerve    nerves     nervous 

* 

nourish  north  owner   honor   spinner   stainer  runner  tanner 

* 

tenor  tuner. 


68  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

7.  THR,  initial,  medial  and  final. 

Author  bother  brother  ether  father  feather  gather  heather 
hither  lather  mother  neither  nether  thrash  throb  throne 
throng  other  rather  weather  whither  zither. 

8.  BL,,  PL,  medial  and  final. 

Amiable  audible  bauble  bearable  bubble  capable  eatable 

*  * 

edible  estimable  gable  garble  horrible  label  libel  noble  payable 

*  ^.^  *  * 

quibble  stable  tableau  terrible  trouble  variable. 

^  —  ••  *  * 

Chapel    cripple    couple   duplex   grapple   haply    happily 

*  * 

maple  people  pupil  purple  perplex  pimple  population  populous 

* 

quintuple  ripple  rumple  scruple. 


9.  GL,  KL,  medial  and  final. 

Beagle  bugle  eagle   frugal   gargle   inveigle   legal   regal 
straggle  struggle  wriggle. 

Acclaim  buckle  cackle  chronicle  collector  fickle  freckle 

*        •-  —  •-  * 

icicle  likely  local  mechanical  Michael  miracle  musical  nickel 

* 

Nicholas  oracle  tackle  trickle  vehicle  vocal  whimsical. 

* 

10.  DL,  TL,  medial  and  final. 

Bridle   cradle  fiddle   fidelity  huddle  idle   idolatry   ladle 
meddle  needle  paddle  riddle  saddle  waddle  wheedle. 

Battle    beetle   bottle  brutal  capital  fatal  kettle  hospital 

mortal  natal  nettle  petal  prattle  quintal  rattle  reptile  scuttle 

* 

settle  spittle  textile  title  total  turtle  victuals  vital. 


NEW    AMERICAN    STENOGRAPHY.  69 

11.  YL,  FL,  medial  and  final. 

Bevel  cavil  civil  devil  evil  frivolous,  gravel  javelin  level 

* 

hovel  naval  marvel  revel  shovel  travel  weevil. 

* 

Armful  awful  baffle  bashful  bountiful  careful  delightful 

dreadful    fearful    faithful   lawful    needful   painful    raffle    rifle 

** 

sorrowful  wilful  whiffle  youthful. 

12.  ZHL,  SHL,  medial  and  final. 

Actual   artificial   bushel   casual   commercial    conventual 

« _ 

equinoctial  facial  financial  glacial  Herschel  martial  nuptial 

official  palatial  partial  racial  usual  visual  social. 

13.  ML,  NL,  initial,  medial  and  final. 

Mail  malice  mellow  melody  maltreat  forrial  primal 
abysmal  animal  calomel  decimal  family  familiarity  malady 

military  Melbourne  mulberry  ameliorate  Milton  milk  milkmaid 

* 

millennium  .million  similar  trammel. 

Annals    analogous    biennial    centennial  sentinel   carnal 

*  *  * 

charnel  colonel  colonial  channel  Daniel  diagonal  denial  eternal 

final  genial  manual  menial  marginal  original  virginal  panel 

*  *  * 

penalty  signal  spinal  tunnel. 

14.  EXDLE,  ENTLE,  (Lesson  14,  page  25.) 

Candle  chandelier  dandle  dandelion  defiantly  distantly 
fondle  fontal  gondolier  kindlier  handle  gentle  genteel  gentile 
infantile  mantle  lentil  lintel  sandal  scandal  spindle  scintillate 
swindle  trundle  vandal  ;  detrimental  continental  fundamental 
sacramental  sentimental. 


70  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

15.      Some  Prefixes.    COM,  CUM,  CON,  (Lesson  18,  page  47.) 

Corn-bat  coin-bine  corn-pose  com-panioii  com-plete  com  pel 

• 
com-pliment     com-rade     com-inand     coin-mend     com-inerce 

com-mon  com-mence  encom-pass  c-o-mical  c-o-medy  c-o-met 

recom-pense  recnm-bent,  encum-brance  ;  con-gregate  con-gress 

*  * 

con-qner  con-clnde  con-trast  con-trol  con-vert  con-version 
con-vulse  con-valesce  con-firm  con-form  coii-ceal  con-sole 
con-secrate  con-siderable  con-cise  con-cede  con-cert  con-suit 

con-ciliate      con-snmptive      con-sent      coii-stant      con-tained 

* 

con-tinent  coii-ti-nual  contrite. 

CONTRA,  COUNTER. 

Contraband      contradict       contradistinction       contralto, 

contravene  ;          controversy  ;          contribute         contrivance ; 

counterbalance       counterfeit        countermand      countermarch 
counterpane  counterpart  counterpoint  counterpoise  countersign 
counterplot. 
IM,  IN. 

Inactive  inadequate  inadvertence  inaugurate  incandescent 
incoherent  incorporate  incorrigible  increase  incur  incline 
include  indict  indictment  industry  infamy  infancy  infest 
influence  influenza  ingratitude  imitate  injure  inside  intend 
intellect  intolerant  inutility  invade  inveterate  invincible 

invisible  ;  immoral  immortal  immense  immerse  imitate 
impanel  impart  impartial  impatience  imperative  impure 

implicit  impress  improve. 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  71 

GST,  KST,  (Lesson  n,  page  21.) 

Boxed  coaxed  contest  convexity  downcast  druggist 
drunkest  fixed  fixture  hoaxed  indexed  locust  luckiest  meekest 
mixed  mixture  next  perplexed  pretext  quickest  stickiest 
strictest  talkest  text  thickest  thinkest  vexed  waxed  weakest. 

The  same  shaded  S-loop  may  be  freely  used  for  ST  on 
single  consonant  stems. 

Best  pest  guest  kissed  nest  zest  vest  faced  lest  rest  jest 
chest  west  hissed  quest. 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 
Reading  Exercise  6, 

A  SUMMER  DAY.— B.  TAYLOR. 


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NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  73 

Key  to  Reading  Exercise  6. 

A  StJMMER  DAY.— B.  TAYLOR. 

Five  o'clock,  and  a  summer  morning  !  A  few  minutes 
ago  I  witnessed  one  of  the  most  beautiful  spectacles  presented 
to  mortal  eyes — the  opening  of  the  gates  of  day,  and  the  sun 
standing  on  the  threshold  looking  forth,  like  a  prince  in 
bright  armor,  upon  his  kingdom.  The  blue  vaults  of  heaven, 
built  up  in  the  heavy  masonry  of  night,  parted  without  a 
crash,  nay,  even  without  the  soft  and  silken  rustle  of  a  cur- 
tain. The  lights  aloft  were  put  out  one  after  another,  to  give 
effect  to  the  scene  ;  the  gates  of  red  gold  swung  back  noise- 
lessly, as  the  parting  of  soft  lips  in  dreams,  and  a  threshold 
and  hall  inlaid  with  pearl  were  disclosed. 

There  was  a  flush,  a  gleam,  and  a  glow  over  the  lake, 
and  there  paused  the  sun,  as  if  enchanted  with  the  scene  he 
smiled  on.  A  moment  more,  and  cloud  and  wood  and  hill 
were  bathed  in  glory.  And  there  was  song — sweetest  song  ; 
the  deep  blue  heaven  was  full  of  voices  of  unseen  birds 
that  fluttered  at  the  pale  portals  of  morning. 

Five  o'clock,  and  a  summer  morning!  A  silvery  mist 
hangs  along  the  streams,  a  few  downy  clouds  are  afloat, 
and  the  landscape  is  heavy  with  dew. 

Seven  o'clock,  and  a  summer  night  !  The  shadows  and 
the  mists  are  rising  on  the  valley  ;  the  whip-poor-wills  begin 
their  melancholy  song  ;  a  star  blazes  beautifully  o'er  the  top 
of  the  woods,  and  the  universal  peace  of  nature  makes  me 
feel — oh,  so  happy  ! 


74  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

Writing  Exercise  6. 

1.  The  ideal  of  friendship  is  to  feel  as  one  while  remain- 
ing two. 

2.  Science  has  not  yet    found    out  the  place    that   an 
absent-minded  man  can  fill  with  credit. 

3.  The  tree  does  not  withdraw  its  shade  even  from  the 
woodcutter. 

4.  A  good  heart  is  better  than  a  good  head,  but  the  two 
work  together  admirably. 

5.  Man  was  given  brains  for  a  purpose  :  some  never  find 
this  out  ! 

6.  Dignity  is  often  the  refuge  of  the  stupid. 

7.  When  wit  fails  us  in  argument,  we  become  personal. 

8.  The  tenant  slowest  in  paying  his   rent,  abuses  his 
landlord  most. 

9.  Earth    has    no    sweeter    music    than    the    voices   of 
children. 

10.  Youth  is  wine,  manhood  is  beer,  old  age  is  dregs. 

11.  Hunger  and  thirst  are  life:  satiety  and  abundance 
death. 

1 2.  Too  many  friends  is  a  bad  thing  ;  one  enemy  is  worse. 

13.  Sorrow  is  a  heavy  burden,  sadness  is  a  heavier,  but 
the  heaviest  is  anger. 

14.  Hatred  is  often  proud  fear. 

15.  One  counsel  is  worth  more  than  a  thousand  compli- 
ments. 

1 6.  When  a  person  minds  his  own  business  he  always 
succeeds. 

17.  When  people  take  their  own  time,  they  generally 
take  other  people's  time  too  ! 

1 8.  There  is  room  at  the  top,  but  there  is  shade  and  rest 
at  the  bottom. 


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Key  to  Reading  Exercise  7. 

THE  LAUGH  OF  A  CHILD. 

There's  the  laugh  of  the  dawn  in  the  waning  East, 

And  the  laugh  of  the  noonday  sky ; 
The  laugh  of  the  breeze,  the  delirious  laugh 

Of  the  flame  when  the  night-winds  sigh. 
There's  the  laugh  'of  the  stars,  of  the  meadow  brook, 

Of  the  sea,  and  the  festal  wine  ; 
The  frivolous  laugh,  and  the  wonderful  laugh 

Of  the  heart  at  affection's  shrine. 
There's  the  laugh  of  the  rose  at  the  setting  moon, 

When  the  night  has  flown  away  ; 
But  the  happiest  laugh,  the  ineffable  laugh, 

Is  the  laugh  of  a  child  at  play. 


1.  The  root  of  knowledge  is  bitter,  but  its  fruit  is  sweet. 

2.  A  smile  may  gild  a  great  deal  of  firmness. 

3.  Diligence  and  cheerfulness  lead  to  success. 

4.  The  door  to  success  is  always  labeled  :  Push  ! 

5.  The   powers   of   our    soul   grow    in    proportion    to 
their  exercise. 

6.  There  are  times  when  it  would  seem  as  if  God  fished 
with  a  hook,  and  the  devil  with  a  net  ! 


NEW  AMERICAN  STENOGRAPHY.-  77 

Writing  Exercise  7. 

What  is  a  friend  ? — This  is  the  prize  answer  selected  by 
a  London  newspaper  from  a  list  submitted  to  it : — 

The  person  who  comes  in  when  the  ivhole  world  has  gone  out. 
The  following  are  some  of  the  best  replies  offered  : — 

1.  A  bank  of  credit  on  which  we  can  draw  supplies  of 
confidence,  counsel,  sympathy,  help,  and  love. 

2.  One  who  considers  my  needs  before  my  deservings. 

3.  The  triple  alliance  of  love,  sympathy,  and  help. 

4.  A  jewel  whose  lustre  the  strong  acids  of  poverty 
and  misfortune  cannot  dim. 

5.  One  who,   gaining   the    top   of  the  ladder,  won't 
forget  you  if  you  remain  at  the  bottom. 

6.  One  who  in  prosperity  does  not  toady  to  you,  who 
in  adversity  assists  you,  in  sickness  nurses  you,  and  after  your 
death  marries  your  widow  and  provides  for  your  children. 

7.  An  earthly  minister  of  heavenly  happiness. 

8.  A  friend  is  like  ivy  :  the  greater  the  ruin,  the  closer 
he  clings. 

9.  One  who  is  the  same  to-day,  the  same  to-morrow, 
either  in  adversity,  prosperity,  or  sorrow. 

10.     One  who  is  truer  to  me  than  I  am  myself. 


Self-control  is  only  courage  under  another  name.  A 
handful  of  good  life  is  worth  a  bushel  of  learning.  A  light 
heart  lives  long. 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 
Writing  Exercise  8. 

Experience  is  a  teacher  good, 
And  makes  his  lessons  understood  ; 
But  then,  we  learn  a  thing  or  so 
That  we'd  much  rather  never  know  ! 


The  eye  that  never  blenches,  the  thought  that  never 
wanders,  the  nerve  that  never  relaxes — these  are  the  masters 
of  victory  ! 

FAILURE.— PAUL  KESTER. 

Ye  who  have  crowned  endeavor  with  success  have  gained  a 
trivial  victory  ; 

We  who  have  striven  on  to  failure,  have  our  great  moments 
of  despair. 

What  is  your  triumph  and  your  joy  to  the  mighty  passion 
that  we  call  defeat  ? 

What  is  the  battle  won,  to  the  grandeur  of  the  battle  lost  ! 

Mighty  the  effort  ye  make  who  fear  to  know  the  horror 
of  defeat, 

But  mightier  far  the  courage  that  can  look  into  the  face  of  fail- 
ure, and  be  calm  ! 

The  longer  I  live,  the  more  certain  I  am  that  the  great 
difference  between  men,  between  the  feeble  and  the  powerful, 
the  great  and  the  insignificant,  is  energy — invincible  deter- 
mination, and  then  :  death  or  victory  !  That  quality  will  do 
anything  in  this  world  ;  and  no  talents,  no  circumstances,  no 
opportunities,  will  make  a  two-legged  creature  a  man  without  it. 

"  What  must  be,  will  be  ;  and  what  can't  be,  may  be ! " 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 
Key  to  Writing  Exercise  8. 


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80  NEW  AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

Writing  Exercise  9,  with  Key. 

1.  He  that  falls  in  love  with  himself  will  have  no  rivals. 

2.  Do  not  tell  all    you  know,   all  you  have,  nor  all 
you  can  do. 

3.  Willows  are  weak,  but  they  bind  the  faggot. 

4.  The  rising  sun  is  more  adored  than  the  setting. 

5.  Men  do  much  more  from  custom  than  from  reason. 

6.  He  that  would  eat  the  kernel  must  crack  the  nut. 

7.  The    cask    will    long   retain    the    flavor    of    what 
first  filled  it. 

8.  He  who  wishes  to  do  wrong  is  never  without  a  reason. 

9.  Honor  the  old,  instruct  the  young,  consult  the  wise, 
and  bear  with  the  foolish. 

10.  Come,   take  thy  choice  of  all  my  library,   and  so 
beguile  thy  sorrow. 

11.  The  mountain  brook  skips  down  to  me, 
Tossing  its  silver  tresses  free, 
Humming  like  one  in  reverie  ! 

12.  Good  luck  doesn't  always  come  in  by  the  front  door. 

13.  Suspicion  may  be  no  fault,  but  showing  it  may  be 
a  great  one. 

14.  He  that  pursues  two  rabbits  catches  neither. 

15.  Want  of  care  does  us  more  damage  than  want  of 
knowledge. 

1 6.  Think   of  your  own   faults  when  you  are  awake, 
think  of  the  faults  of  others  when  you  are  asleep. 

17.  The  chief  want  in  life  is  somebody  who  will  make 
us  do  the  best  we  can. 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 
Key  to  Writing  Exercise  9. 


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82  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

Writing  Exercise  10,  with  Key. 

1.  Kindness  is  a  language  that  even  the  dumb  can 

speak  and  the  deaf  understand. 

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2.  Prosperity  discovers  vice,  and  adversity  virtue. 

3.  He   that   can   have    patience,    can   have   whatever 
he  wishes. 

4.  Leisure  is  time  for  doing  something  useful. 

5.  Better  is  a   little  with   content,   than  much  with 
contention. 

6.  None  preaches  better  than  the  ant,  and  she  says 
nothing ! 

7.  A  hound  that  must  be  carried  to  the  chase  will 
hardly  catch  much  game. 

8.  Three  may  keep  a  secret,  if  two  of  them  are  dead. 

9.  Genius  without  education  is  like  gold  in  the  mine. 
10.     Honey  is  sweet,  but  the  bee  has  a  sting. 

n.     Nothing  dries  sooner  than  a  tear. 

12.  Friendship  cannot  live  with  ceremony,  nor  without 
civility. 

13.  Take  heed  of  the  vinegar  of  sweet  wine,  and  the 
anger  of  good  nature. 

14.  Many   have  quarreled    about    religion    that    never 
practiced  it. 

15.  Reading  makes  a  full  man,  meditation  a  profound 
man,  and  discourse  a  clear  man. 

1 6.  Common  sense  is  the  art  of  seeing  things  as  they 
really  are,  and  of  doing  things  as  they  ought  to  be  done. 


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84  NEW   AMERICAN  STENOGRAPHY. 

Writing  Exercise  11. 

LINCOLN'S  FAMOUS  SPEECH  AT  THE  DEDICATION  OF 
GETTYSBURG  CEMETERY. 

(239  words  :  to  be  written  in  2J^  minutes  ;  then,  in  2  minutes.) 

Four  score  and  seven  years  ago,  our  fathers  brought  forth 
upon  this  continent  a  new  nation,  conceived  in  liberty  and 
dedicated  to  the  proposition  that  all  men  are  created  equal. 
Now  we  are  engaged  in  a  great  civil  war,  testing  whether  that 
nation,  or  any  nation  so  conceived  and  so  constructed,  can 
long  endure. 

We  are  met  on  the  great  battle-field  of  that  war.  We  are 
met  to  dedicate  a  portion  of  it  as  the  final  resting-place  of 
those  who  have  given  their  lives  that  that  nation  might  live. 
But,  in  a  larger  sense,  we  cannot  dedicate,  we  cannot  hallow 
this  ground.  The  brave  men,  living  and  dead,  who  struggled 
here,  have  consecrated  it  far  beyond  our  power  to  add  or  to 
detract.  The  world  will  very  little  note  or  long  remember 
what  we  say  here,  but  it  never  can  forget  what  they  did  here. 

It  is  for  us,  the  living,  rather,  to  be  dedicated  to  the 
unfinished  work  that  they  have  thus  far  so  nobly  carried  on. 
It  is  rather  for  us  to  be  here  dedicated  to  the  great  task 
remaining  before  us,  that  from  these  honored  dead  we  take 
increased  devotion  to  that  cause  for  which  they  here  gave  the 
last  full  measure  of  devotion;  that  the  nation  shall,  under 
God,  have  a  new  birth  of  freedom,  and  that  government  of 
the  people,  by  the  people,  for  the  people,  shall  not  perish 
from  the  earth. 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


Reading  Exercise  1 1 . 


LINCOLN'S   SPEECH  AT  GETTYSBURG. 


86  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY 

Writing  Exercise  12. 

THE   AMERICAN   CREED. 
(298  words :  to  be  written  in  two  minutes.) 

When  in  the  course  of  human  events  it  becomes  necessary 
for  one  people  to  dissolve  the  political  bonds  which  have  con- 
nected them  with  another,  and  to  assume  among  the  powers 
of  the  earth  the  separate  and  equal  station  to  which  the  laws 
of  nature  and  of  nature's  God  entitled  them,  a  decent  respect 
to  the  opinion  of  mankind  requires  that  they  should  declare 
the  causes  which  impelled  them  to  separation.  We  hold  these 
truths  to  be  self-evident :  That  all  men  are  created  equal ; 
that  they  are  endowed  by  their  Creator  with  certain  inalienable 
rights ;  that  among  these  are  life,  liberty,  and  the  pursuit  of 
happiness ;  that  to  secure  these  rights  governments  are  insti- 
tuted among  men,  deriving  their  just  powers  from  the  consent 
of  the  governed;  that  whenever  any  form  of  government 
becomes  destructive  of  these  ends,  it  is  the  right  of  the  people 
to  alter  or  abolish  it,  and  to  institute  new  government,  laying 
its  foundations  on  such  principles,  and  organizing  its  powers 
in  such  form  as  to  them  shall  seem  most  likely  to  effect  their 
safety  and  happiness. 

Prudence,  indeed,  will  dictate  that  governments  long 
established  should  not  be  changed  for  light  and  transient 
causes  ;  and,  accordingly,  all  experience  hath- shown  that  man- 
kind are  more  disposed  to  suffer  while  evils  are  sufferable, 
than  to  right  themselves  by  abolishing  the  forms  to  which 
they  are  accustomed.  But  when  a  long  train  of  abuses  and 
usurpations,  pursuing  invariably  the  same  object,  evinces  a 
design  to  reduce  them  under  absolute  despotism,  it  is  their 
right,  it  is  their  duty,  to  throw  off  such  government,  and  to 
provide  new  guards  for  their  future  security.  Such  has  been 
the  patient  sufferance  of  these  colonies,  and  such  is  now  the 
necessity  which  constrains  them  to  alter  their  former  system 
of  government. 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


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Writing  Exercise  13. 

RAILROAD    BOOK-KEEPING. 

•  (208  words.) 

A  great  element  of  benefit  in  railroad  improvement  is 
protection  against  losses  by  accidents.  A  single  track  may 
be  ample  for  ordinary  transportation,  but  doubling  it  tends  to 
obviate  the  collision  of  trains.  Iron  bridges  carry  rails  no 
better  than  wooden  ones  do,  but  they  do  not  decay  nor  burn, 
and  there  are  no  costly  interruptions  for  repairs.  Handsome 
station  houses  may  not  attract  new  passengers,  but  they  have 
not  the  repulsiveness  of  unsightly  and  inconvenient  structures. 
Depressing  and  elevating  tracks,  to  avoid  crossing,  at  grade, 
city  streets  and  country  roads,  involve  an  outlay  which  may 
add  nothing  to  revenue,  but  which,  nevertheless,  diminish 
immensely  suits  for  vehicles  and  animals  destroyed  and 
human  beings  killed  and  injured. 

This  last-mentioned  element  of  construction  expense, 
the  elimination  of  grade  crossings,  has  become,  in  the  thickly 
populated  New  England  States,  a  necessity  which  legislatures 
have  recognized  and  enforced  by  statute. 

Added  to  these  considerations,  comes  that  of  the  reduced 
rates  of  interest  obtainable  upon  capital  invested  in  railroads. 
A  property  which  formerly  paid  10  per  cent,  per  annum,  now 
pays  only  5. 

From  all  this  it  will  be  seen  that  in  railroad  book- 
keeping, expenditures  which  prevent  decreases  of  earnings  are 
entitled  to  be  classed  with  those  that  directly  increase  them. 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  89 

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90  NEW  AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

BUSINESS  LETTERS. 


i. 

DEAR  SIR, 

We  have  your  favor  of  the  4th  inst. ,  inclosing  check  for 
five  hundred  and  thirty-five  dollars  and  seventy-five  cents 
($535-75)  in  payment  of  your  note,  which  you  will  find 
enclosed. 

We  note  what  you  say  in  regard  to  the  notes  which  the 
Company  holds  against  your  uncle's  policy  ;  and  in  reply  will 
say  that  his  wife  thoroughly  understands  that  these  notes  will 
be  deducted  from  the  amount  of  the  policy,  and  is  satisfied 
that  this  should  be  done. 

Yours  very  truly. 


2. 


We  herein  inclose  a  few  of  our  circulars  illustrating  the 
different  plans  of  insurance  ;  and  allow  me  to  say  that  our 
Company  will  issue  a  policy  on  almost  any  desired  plan  coun- 
tenanced by  any  other  life  insurance  company.  But  we  would 
especially  call  your  attention  to  our  life-rate  endowment  plans. 

We  will  be  pleased  to  have  you  call  at  our  office  when- 
ever it  suits  your  convenience,  and  we  will  gladly  give  you  any 
information  that  you  may  desire  on  this  subject. 

Very  respectfully  yours. 


DEAR  SIR, 


NEW   AMERICAN  STENOGRAPHY.  91 

3. 


On  the  4th  inst.  I  wrote  to  you,  asking  you  to  give  me 
the  present  condition  of  the  estate  of  X.  Y.  Z.,  deceased,  but 
perhaps  you  did  not  receive  the  letter.  It  is  absolutely 
necessary  that  the  estate  be  settled  within  the  next  ten  days, 
and  this  will  be  impossible  unless  you  give  me  the  necessary 
information.  Please  give  this  your  immediate  attention. 

Yours  truly. 


4. 

DEAR  SIR, 

Why  have  we  not  heard  from  you  in  regard  to  your 
account,  which  is  long  past  due?  If  we  do  not  receive  a 
check  from  you  during  the  next  few  days,  we  must  place  the 
matter  in  the  hands  of  our  attorney  for  collection. 

Yours  truly. 


5. 
DEAR  SIR, 

We  are  in  receipt  of  your  favor  of  recent  date,  and 
enclose  check  on  First  National  Bank  to  settle  our  account 
in  full.  Did  you  hear  of  our  having  been  completely  burnt 
out?  Even  our  books  were  destroyed.  I  hope  that,  in  six 
months  we  will  be  on  our  feet  again. 


92  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 


6. 

DEAR  SIR, 

Yours  of  recent  date  received,  and  contents  noted.  I 
forwarded  your  letter  to  the  General  Manager,  and  will  write 
you  again  when  I  receive  his  instructions. 

According  to  your  suggestion,  I  broached  the  matter  to 
more  than  a  dozen  prominent  business  men  of  this  city,  and 
they  all  think  favorably  of  the  proposed 'new  building. 

With  best  wishes  for  your  success, 

I  remain. 


DEAR  SIR, 

Your  kind  note  of  inquiry  just  received,  and  I  am  happy 
to  state  that  it  is  in  my  power  to  accommodate  you. 

There  is  a  very  desirable  house,  of  nine  rooms,  on  Wash- 
ington Terrace,  built  by  me  five  years  ago,  with  all  modern 
improvements  complete.  The  Lafayette  Avenue  cars  pass 
within  one  square  of  the  property. 

I  have  another  house,  of  eight  rooms,  on  Buchanan  Street 
near  the  Boulevard.  There  is  a  large  lawn  in  front,  and  a 
greenhouse  in  the  rear. 

Both  of  these  dwellings  will  be  ready  for  occupancy  May  i. 

Will  be  here  all  day  Thursday,  and  would  like  you  to 
call,  if  convenient. 

Respectfully  yours. 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  93 

8. 

GENTLEMEN  OF  THE  LITERARY  SOCIETY, 

In  answer  to  your  favor  of  even  date,  I  would  say  that 
my  "Manual  of  Stenography"  will  meet  your  requirements, 
whether  you  secure  a  teacher  or  not.  It  seems  to  me,  how- 
ever, that  it  would  be  a  vast  saving  of  time  and  energy  for 
you  to  engage  a  competent  instructor  from  the  very  start. 
At  this  moment  I  have  a  young  man,  oT  fair  experience  and 
decided  ability,  who  is  open  for  an  engagement. 

Awaiting  your  instructions,  and  wishing  you  all  success 
in  your  proposed  class  of  stenography, 

I  remain,  Gentlemen, 

Very  truly  yours. 


9. 

DEAR  SIR, 

With  reference  to  your  recent  inquiry,  we  beg  to  inform 
you  that  our  London  agent  reports  a  second-hand  copy  of 
Anderson's  shorthand  system  for  $1.35  net 

Walis  published  in  1875,  the  only  system  of  shorthand 
ever  applied  to  music.  His  title  runs  thus  :  "  Musical  Short- 
hand for  the  Representation  of  Harmony  as  well  as  Melody." 
We  can  import  you  a  good  clean  copy  for  $1.50. 

Kindly  let  us  know  immediately  whether  we  will  secure 

the  above  works,  and  oblige 

Yours  respectfully. 


94  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

10. 

DEAR  SIR, 

Answering  your  application,  I  would  state  that  I  have 
two  vacancies,  for  which  perhaps  you  would  be  suitable.  In 
each  of  the  colleges,  the  chair  is  worth  $1500  per  annum, 
exclusive  of  board  and  lodging. 

Please  call  at  your  earliest  convenience,  bringing  your 
testimonials. 

Very  truly  yours. 


NEW    AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 
Ten  Business  Letters. 


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Writing  Exercise  15. 

CONTRASTS   BETWEEN   POETS. 

(Elevated  Style.    400  words:  to  be  written  in  four  minutes.) 


Some  poets  delight  in  quiet  scenes,  in  woodland  bowers, 
in  rivers  that  lapse  so  quietly  with  their  brims  on  the  level  of 
the  meadows,  that  the  sedge  scarce  twinkles  in  the  stream  ;  in 
cottages  jasmine-mantled,  in  kine  knee- deep  in  the  cool 
shadow  ;  in  village  spires  scarce  overtopping  a  coronal  of 
ancient  elms  ;  and  in  all  those  evening  sights  and  sounds 
which  tell  of  weary  labor  set  free  and  wending  to  its  home  : — 
while  others  delight  in  the  forest  solitudes,  in  the  solemnity 
of  the  overclouded  fen,  in  vast  outspread  scenes  of  moonlit  sea, 
or  in  the  silence  of  deserted  cities  and  neglected  ruins.  These 
are  the  images  that  recur  in  their  works  again  and  again,  as 
if  those  aspects  of  nature  were  the  expression  of  their  entire 
rninds. 

There  are  some  whose  imagery  is  all  from  the  tangled 
lives  of  men,  and  the  many-sided  aspects  of  human  actions ; 
poets  who  have  no  still  life  within  their  souls,  except  when  they 
reach  the  intensest  depths  of  passions,  which  at  such  depths 
are  gestureless  and  mute.  They  can  clothe  in  marvelous 
beauty  the  objects  whose  daily  commonness  most  dishonors 
them.  The  streets  of  the  city  become  beautiful  in  their  word- 
pictures,  and  the  trampling  of  a  multitude  makes  music  in 
their  verse. 

There  are  yet  others  who  like  to  live  in  echoing 
thunderstorms  among  the  rifted  crags  of  the  hollow  mountains  ; 


,  .  ...  ... 

LAWYER 
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NEW    AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  99 

who  go  far  out  of  the  sound  of  suffering  humanity,  and  are 
dwellers  with  the  eagles.  The  stun  of  the  thundering 
avalanche,  the  black,  mountainous  and  shipless  seas  bursting  on 
the  iron-bound  coast,  the  sobbing  and  moaning  of  the  winds 
in  purple,  unsunny  glens,  the  unwitnessed  volcanoes  that 
wave  their  red  torches  over  the  silent,  ghastly  whiteness  of 
the  creatureless  south-pole,  as  if  they  were  earth's  fiery  banners 
hung  out  in  space  as  she  races  onward  ;  immense  precipices 
that  sleep  forever  in  shadows  of  their  own,  even  when  the 
brightest  sun  is  shining; — these  are  the  images  which  overcast 
the  work  of  such  minds,  and  are  their  genius,  their  inspiration, 
their  native  grandeur.  It  is  in  a  world  of  these  dread  forms 
that  their  minds  breathe  most  freely ;  or  rather  they  breathe 
freely  nowhere  else  but  there.  The  eagle  chooses  his  dwelling 
with  as  faultless  an  instinct  as  the  nightingale  deep-hidden  in 
the  bush,  or  the  robin  trilling  its  winter  song  upon  the 
window-sill. 


WRITING  EXERCISE  16.     THE  AGOUTI'S  FATE. 


(Familiar  Style.    700  words:  to  be  written  in  five  minutes.) 


On  a  fertile  island  in  the  tropics,  there  lived  a  happy 
little  family  of  agoutis.  An  agouti  is  an  animal  very  different 
from  those  to  which  we  are  accustomed  :  in  fact,  it  is  a  curious 
compound  of  rabbit,  muskrat  and  woodchuck,  and  is  often 
called  gouti,  for  short. 

Now,  once  upon  a  time,  young  Master  Gouti,  being  of  a 
venturesome  disposition,  wanted  to  roam  abroad  like  his 
father,  and  find  out  what  the  big,  sunny  world  outside  his  bur- 


IOO  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

row  was  like.  So  he  went  to  his  mother  and  told  her  what  a 
perfectly  beautiful  morning  it  was,  and  asked  leave  to  take  a 
little  run  down  to  the  stream  at  the  foot  of  the  hill,  where  the 
air  was  so  cool,  and  where  there  were  so  many  roots  and 
vegetables  that  he  could  find  to  eat. 

Mrs.  Gouti  thought  for  a  moment,  and  then  said  :  "Well, 
if  you  will  promise  not  to  go  near  that  great  clump  of  bamboos 
down  there  by  the  spring,  you  can  run  out  for  half  an  hour  or 
so,  but  be  sure  to  come  back  before  the  sun  gets  hot." 
Master  Gouti  promised  readily  enough  ;  and  as  he  hopped 
along,  looking  so  innocent  and  happy,  you  couldn't  help  but 
love  him.  When  he  reached  the  foot  of  the  hill,  and  saw  the 
bright  stream  rippling  over  the  rocks  and  pebbles,  and  the 
broad-leaved  plants  on  its  borders,  he  was  delighted.  He 
darted  in  under  one  of  the  great  plants,  and  stopped  a  minute 
to  consider  just  which  way  he  ought  to  go.  Peering  out,  he  saw 
the  bamboo  clump  with  its  immense  shafts  decorated  with 
bright  green  leaves,  and  he  scanned  it  curiously,  wondering 
why  he  shouldn't  venture  near  it. 

Now,  his  mother  had  not  told  him  why :  for  she  believed  in 
keeping  her  children  ignorant,  as  long  as  possible,  of  the  evils 
by  which  they  were  surrounded.  And  so,  she  never  told  the 
little  one  that  the  clump  of  bamboos  was  the  lair  of  a  big  and 
dreadful  serpent,  an  immense  anaconda,  which  would  gobble 
him  up  in  a  minute.  Maybe  she  was  sorry  for  her  way  of 
acting,  as  the  day  went  by  and  the  night  came  on  without  any 
sign  of  her  son  returning. 

Well,  Master  Gouti  wondered  why  his  mother  had 
forbidden  him  to  go  into  the  bamboo  clump,  or  near  it ;  and 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  IOI 

he  also  wondered  what  she  meant  by  near,  whether  a  rod,  a 
foot,  or  even  less.  "Anyway,"  thought  he,  "I  may  go  a 
little  nearer  without  disobeying,"  and  so  he  hopped  out  from 
the  shelter  of  the  big  leaf,  and  then  stopped  and  viewed  the 
bunch  of  bamboos.  There  was  nothing  forbidding  in  their 
appearance,  so  he  hopped  just  a  little  nearer,  until  he  was 
within  a  yard  or  so  of  the  rattling  spears  and  rasping  leaves. 
Then  he  was  suddenly  transfixed  by  a  bright,  round  eye  like  a 
glittering  diamond,  set  in  the  head  of  what  we  know  was  the 
anaconda,  but  Gouti  didn't  know  it,  he  was  so  innocent ;  thus 
he  was  drawn  nearer  and  nearer,  until  all  at  once  he  saw 
behind  the  head,  a  long  and  loathsome  body  twined  about  the 
bamboo  shafts  for  ever  so  many  feet  of  their  length.  Then 
the  glittering  eye  fixed  him,  cold  and  shivering.  A  huge,  red 
mouth  opened  like  a  great,  warm  oven,  big  enough  to  take 
him  in  without  an  effort,  and  not  only  him,  but  all  his  family 
besides. 

He  may  then  have  realized  the  peril  he  was  in,  and  may 
have  tried  to  escape,  but  it  was  too  late.  There  was  such  a 
fascination  about  that  big,  red  cavern,  with  its  rows  of  pointed 
teeth  ;  and,  above  all,  the  glittering  diamond  eye,  that  he 
couldn't  move  for  the  life  of  him.  Then  the  anaconda  seemed 
to  say  "jump  in,  my  little  friend,  jump  right  in."  And  the 
big,  red  cavern  looked  so  warm  and  comfortable  that  Master 
Gouti  made  one  leap,  his  last  on  earth,  and — well,  that  was 
all.  The  big,  red  mouth  closed  with  a  terrible  snap,  the 
diamond  eye  twinkled  with  satisfaction,  and  if  you  want  to 
know  anything  more  about  the  poor,  disobedient,  little  Gouti, 
perhaps  the  anaconda  could  tell. 


102  NEW   AMERICAN    STENOGRAPHY. 

FINAL  PARAGRAPHS. 


The  student  will  find  it  useful,  after  lie  has  become  well 
acquainted  with  the  foregoing  rules  and  exercises,  to  employ 
some  friend  to  read  those  same  exercises,  as  well  as  other 
selections  on  different  subjects,  slowly  at  first,  while  he  writes 
them  down.  The  speed  may  be  gradually  increased.  This 
will  familiarize  him  to  the  manner  of  following  a  voice,  will 
call  his  acquirements  into  active  exercise,  and  will  lessen  the 
embarrassment  of  one's  first  trials  at  verbatim  reporting. 

It  will  also  facilitate  the  progress  of  the  learner,  if,  when 
he  sees  an  unusual  word,  or  hears  it  spoken,  he  accustom 
himself  to  consider  how  it  would  look  in  shorthand.  This 
habit  of  mentally  writing  words  and  phrases  will  greatly  con- 
tribute to  readiness  and  accuracy. 

The  smaller  the  characters  can  be  written,  the  better  will 
it  conduce  to  speed. 

When  a  stenographer  is  employed  to  take  down  the 
proceedings  in  a  court  of  law,  and  it  is  of  importance  to 
report  everything  as  nearly  verbatim  as  possible,  it  is  desirable 
for  him  to  acquaint  himself  previously  with  the  matter  in 
dispute,  which  is  often  so  complicated  as  not  easily  to  be 
understood.  By  becoming  master  of  the  case  beforehand,  he 
will  be  in  less  danger  of  falling  into  mistakes,  and  will  more 
readily  comprehend  the  meaning  and  bearing  of  what  is  said. 


The  assistance  of  a  teacher,  when  it  can  be  obtained,  is 
of  great  advantage  in  the  study  of  this  art.     Men  differ  in 


NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  103 

their  genius  and  perceptions,  and  every  pupil  has  his  own 
peculiar  views  and  ideas.  Difficulties  present  themselves  to 
some  minds  which  never  occur  to  others,  and  which  no  writer 
on  the  subject  can  anticipate.  It  is  impossible,  in  a  public 
treatise,  to  lay  down  the  rules  and  explanations  adapted  to  the 
capacities  and  satisfactory  to  the  understanding  of  all  who 
may  endeavor  to  master  stenography  by  means  of  it.  A 
teacher,  however,  has  it  in  his  power  to  give  such  minute  and 
personal  instructions  as  cannot  fail  to  produce  a  beneficial 
effect.  He  can  at  once  explain  to  the  student  whatever  seems 
obscure  and  ambiguous  ;  he  can  solve  his  difficulties,  correct 
his  mistakes,  direct  and  encourage  him  in  his  progress,  and 
lead  him  on  to  become  an  expert  writer. 


IO4  NEW   AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY. 

CONCLUDING  ADVICE. 


AFTER  STENOGRAPHY — WHAT  ? 


Before  bidding  an  affectionate  "Good-bye  and  God-speed  " 
to  the  pupil  who  has  successfully  followed  us  so  far,  we  deem 
it  proper  to  insist  on  what  we  know  to  be  necessary  for  him  to 
succeed  in  any  line  of  business  as  a  professional  stenographer. 

In  an  interview  granted  many  years  ago,  the  head  of  a 
leading  Boston  firm  said  to  the  representative  of  a  shorthand 
journal  : — 

"  '  I  used  to  think  that  one  of  the  most  essential  things  to 
a  good  shorthand  writer  was  the  ability  to  write  a  good  legible 
longhand,  carefully  spelled  and  punctuated ;  but,  since  type- 
writers have  come  into  such  general  use,  about  the  only 
writing  stenographers  have  to  do  is  in  shorthand.  But,  you 
would  be  surprised  if  I  told  you  what  trouble  I  have  to  get 
good  typewriting  done. ' 

'"I  have  noticed  you  are  a  rapid  dictator  ;  do  your  sten- 
ographers ever  make  mistakes  ? ' 

'"Ever?  Why,  bless  your  soul,  I  never  had  one  who 
didn't,  and  repeatedly.  I  should  like  to  pay  for  a  beautiful 
glass  case  to  put  over  the  stenographer  who  never  made  a 
mistake  !  But,  when  they  get  used  to  the  business,  mistakes 
grow  less  numerous,  of  course. ' 

"'What,  in  your  opinion,  should  a  young  person  learn, 
besides  shorthand,  who  wishes  to  prepare  himself  for  a  cor- 
respondence clerk  ? ' 


NEW  AMERICAN   STENOGRAPHY.  105 

"  'Oh,  lots  of  things  will  come  handy  in  any  business  ; 
perhaps  grammar,  pre-eminently,  business  terms  and  compo- 
sition. If  a  stenographer  doesn't  know  how  to  paraphrase, 
he's  a  failure  ;  for  no  man  wants  his  letters  always  written  out 
exactly  as  dictated.  Sometimes,  in  the  hurry  of  dictating,  I 
repeat  the  same  idea  in  different  words,  and  say  a  thing  '  back 
end  to,'  which  a  stenographer  is  expected  to  turn  around 
properly,  prune,  and  polish.  If  he  can't  do  that,  he'll  never 
suit  me.  There  are,  I  am  satisfied,  very  few  who  combine 
rapid  shorthand  writing,  ready  shorthand  reading,  a  knack  to 
smoothe  over  the  rough  spots  of  a  dictation  and  make  a  good 
readable  letter,  with  good  typewriting  and  gentlemanly  man- 
ners. These  are  the  essentials  of  a  first-class  stenographer, 
and  that's  the  only  kind  we  want  here.'  " 


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ALPHABET ....  5 

LESSON  i.     Alphabet  Drill.     Circle  Vowels 6 

LESSON  2.     Alphabet  Drill.     Circle  Vowels. 8 

LESSON  3.     Alphabet  Drill.     Circle  Vowels 9 

LESSON  4.     Alphabet  Drill;     E  and  1 10 

LESSON  5.     Alphabet  Drill.     U  and  U. n 

LESSON  6.     Alphabet  Drill.     Dot  Vowels 12 

LESSON  7.     Alphabet  Drill.     Diphthongs 13 

LESSON  8.     Double  Consonants 14 

LESSON  9.     Double  Consonants,  continued 16 

LESSON  10.  Lengthened  Letters 20 

LESSON  II.  Initial  and  Final  S 21 

LESSON  12.  Nasal  N .*.... 22 

LESSON  13.  Combined  Consonants 24 

LESSON  14.  Combined  Consonants,  Shaded     . 25 

Reading  and  Writing  Exercise  i.     Circle  Vowels   ....  30 

Reading  and  Writing  Exercise  2.     Circle  Vowels    ....  31 

Reading  and  Writing  Exercise  3.     Circle  Vowels 32 

Reading  and  Writing   Exercise  4.     Dot  Vowels 33 

LESSON  15.  Word  Signs 35 

LESSON  16.  Phrase-Writing 41 

LESSON  17.  Terminations 44 

LESSON  18.  Prefixes 47 

LESSON  19.  Letters  Omitted 52 

LESSON  20.  Syllables  Omitted 54 

Reading  Exercise  5.     Proverbs  and  Sentences 60 

Key  to  the  preceding  Exercise 61 

Writing  Exercise  5 63 

General  Review  Drills 64 

Reading  Exercise  6.     A  Summer  Day 72 

Key  to  the  preceding  Exercise.      73 

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LESSON  20.   Writing  Exercise  6 74 

Reading  Exercise  7.     The  Laugh  of  a  Child 75 

Key  to  the  preceding  Exercise 76 

Writing  Exercise  7 77 

Writing  Exercise  8 78 

Key  to  the  preceding  Exercise 79 

Writing  Exercise  9 80 

Key  to  the  preceding  Exercise 81 

Writing  Exercise  10 82 

Key  to  preceding  Exercise 83 

Writing  Exercise  n.  Lincoln's  Famous  Speech  ....  84 

Key  to  the  preceding  Exercise 85 

Writing  Exercise  12.  The  American  Creed 86 

Key  to  the  preceding  Exercise 87 

Writing  Exercise  13.  Railroad  Book-keeping 88 

Key  to  the  preceding  Exercise 89 

Writing  Exercise  14.  Business  Letters 90 

Key  to  the  preceding  Exercise 95 

Writing  Exercise  15.  Contrasts  between  Poets 98 

Writing  Exercise  16.  The  Agouti's  Fate 99 

Final  Paragraphs 102 

Concluding  Advice 104 


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